Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 2 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |
| 3 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 4 | It has often been pointed out that even if he had written nothing before this stage he would still be regarded as an important poet . |
| 5 | Now , after several hours of teasing pursuit , he had lost it in these hell-lit tunnels . |
| 6 | For some reason , he felt he had to explain himself to this dark-eyed , intense young woman . |
| 7 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 8 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 9 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
| 10 | Noel Cooper was lifted aboard : he had seen nothing of Norman Teacher since the Lt-Cmdr swam off towards the shore . |
| 11 | For a moment he thought that a sprinkling of light fell wherever Fael-Inis walked , but as it touched the floor it vanished , and he could not be sure that he had seen it at all . |
| 12 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 13 | He had asked her about that . |
| 14 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 15 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 16 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |
| 17 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 18 | She shook her head in exasperation , remembering his deception and total lack of sympathy , the way he had treated her on that first night , that following morning . |
| 19 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 20 | None of the bargeowners could afford to waste electricity , and the display was really intended for much later at night , but he had turned it on early to surprise and please them . |
| 21 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 22 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 23 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
| 24 | Yeah , he had to sing it like that and then , then there 's , there 's only two of them , you know and erm , the , er , other , the other one , he 's a black man yeah , and he goes who 's that big gorilla in the back and he 's pointing to me . |
| 25 | He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley . |
| 26 | He spent many hours of darkness , sweating lightly in spite or the autumn and early winter cold , wishing some of his replies unsaid , and wishing above all that he had said anything at all after the examiner 's last remark . |
| 27 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 28 | In the preceding months he had prepared himself with meticulous care , filling his mind with distilled knowledge , drop by drop , until … it was almost brimming over . |
| 29 | Always grumbling , he had threatened them with all kinds of dreadful punishment if he had caught them walking in St Andrew 's churchyard or sheltering in the porch . |
| 30 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |