Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They refused point blank and he had to take it to another garage . |
| 2 | He would later swear that he had cautioned me about this the previous night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now , after several hours of teasing pursuit , he had lost it in these hell-lit tunnels . |
| 5 | For some reason , he felt he had to explain himself to this dark-eyed , intense young woman . |
| 6 | He had to explain it to this man . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She wondered why he had accepted it at all . |
| 9 | He had asked her about that . |
| 10 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 13 | If he had drunk anything at all , it had left him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But he had done none of these things Instead he had kept his temper , and not even threatened to raise his hand . |
| 19 | When she thought of her son-in-law , how he had inveigled himself into this house and into this old woman 's good books , she again felt a pity for Len rise in her . |
| 20 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 21 | He had taken her to most of the local beauty spots ; arranged for cannon to be fired over the lake for their echoes and the quaint museum to be selectively open when they visited the place . |
| 22 | He had taken her into another dimension . |
| 23 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 24 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 25 | And DeVore , hearing it , had felt he had used it like some secret password ; some token of mutual understanding . |
| 26 | Graham did n't mind Slater knowing about Sara — he had introduced them to each other , after all — but he wanted to keep this day private . |
| 27 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 28 | Haverford was clear on the answer to that one ; he had mentioned it in several of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 29 | He had told her of that morning 's meeting between the local Tories and Norman Fowler . |
| 30 | But he had to keep us on that . |