Example sentences of "he had see " in BNC.

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1 He had to see what was up with the sheep .
2 He had to see it for himself .
3 In the forests of Chippenham and Melksham , Dean , Feckenham , Peak and Windsor the warden had also the custody of royal manors in the forest , and he had to see that they were properly stocked and managed .
4 Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself .
5 He had to see Liza again .
6 He had to see .
7 However repulsive , he had to see !
8 He had to see a man about a gallery . ’
9 Er I never actually had any part in it but I heard tales about er the rivet boy in particular , the they would er they would give him a wage equivalent to what they thought was was a was a reasonable wage for him , because of the fact that they were on piece work , he had to see that the rivets there on time .
10 He had to see .
11 He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’
12 ‘ After his … after the business at Narborough , he had to see Canon Wheeler every now and again .
13 Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see .
14 To turn his head sideways meant slicing the edges of his mouth with the taut wire , but he had to see what they were doing .
15 He 'd forced himself to do this , sneak down here , humiliate himself because he had to see her now , this evening .
16 The night was still young , so whoever the female was who worked peculiar hours , or whatever the reason was that he could n't have seen her earlier — and by then Fabia was certain that ‘ someone he had to see ’ would be female — then she hoped he had a truly lovely time !
17 He had seen beyond the excitement of being approached for his first book ; he already visualised it on the bookshelves !
18 Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday .
19 But the body of Mrs Wilks was not found until two days later , at the bottom of a motorway embankment two-and-a-half miles away , when a motorist took police to a spot where he had seen a silver Renault 25 parked .
20 The former Today owner said he had seen documentation from Scottish financial institutions which put Knighton 's personal net worth at ‘ around £3m ’ , and added : ‘ I think he should now step aside and let somebody in who has the interests of the club at heart . ’
21 President Bush defended his administration 's cautious response , saying he had seen no facts since Tuesday which ‘ would have made me make a different decision ’ .
22 ‘ We will have the psychological edge over them , ’ Jonah Barrington , the coach , said , even though he had seen Del Harris , Bryan Beeson and Jason Nicolle fail to purloin even a single game between them against their rampaging opponents .
23 Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics .
24 He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk .
25 As Dick often pointed out , he had seen more flesh on a wooden leg , and more fat on the breakfast bacon .
26 Nathan turned the conversation to the bear trap in the museum , asking Odd-Knut if he had seen it , and soon we were talking about the killing of film on seal killing had been shown , an indictment of the Norwegian sealers .
27 He had seen it hundreds of times on the faces of people who fancied that they had said too much to him , opened their hearts too wide .
28 He was strongly tempted to stay on the train and take his chance but remembering the man he had seen the Railway Police arrest he got off at Lichtenberg and bought a ticket at the machine .
29 He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast .
30 With his background in Ulster , where he had seen the blasphemous absurdity of Christians hating one another on the grounds of historical or ritual difference , he was always rigorously ‘ non-party ’ in his Anglicanism .
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