Example sentences of "[noun pl] he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , he would sit down , realize the risks he had taken and start to worry about what he had done ! |
| 2 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 3 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 4 | It seemed fresh and charming compared with some of the bawdy , world-weary journalists he had to deal with . |
| 5 | The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start . |
| 6 | He would be ever hereafter his own successor in developing sequels to the steps he had taken in the spring and summer of 1837 . |
| 7 | It occurred to Wycliffe with a sense of surprise that of the three brothers he had spoken only to one ; he had never seen either Matthew or Alfred in life , yet he needed to know them . |
| 8 | In Kee 's fine dark eyes he had read a call for help . |
| 9 | However , in deference to his friend 's Moslem susceptibilities he had stayed with coffee , and certainly Turkish coffee taken mazbout , sweetened , was perfectly to his taste . |
| 10 | He returned an hour later with a few stunted bushes he had managed to prise from the rock . |
| 11 | They passed the fountain , which still lay in darkness , having beaten Stephen and the team of electricians he had had working until minutes before the guests ' arrival — the one and only thing that was not finished . |
| 12 | Over his pyjamas he had put on a new Fair Isle pullover which had been his mother 's Christmas present . |
| 13 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 14 | The Scots rebelled and Charles I had to raise more money for an army to quell the uprising and for funds he had to resort to Parliament who demanded the removal of both Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Stafford . |
| 15 | Those Frenchmen he had killed tonight would walk again unless … |
| 16 | When he asked Colm over the microphone how many goals he had scored the boy proudly replied ‘ Four ’ … |
| 17 | He went to Sacramento with no readymade staff ; he had no understanding of how the political system worked and had no strategy for translating the goals he had espoused during the campaign into a programme of practical proposals . |
| 18 | With five of his supporters he had tried to hold a street-corner meeting , heckled by a group of twenty onlookers , some of whom began to sing the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 19 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 20 | Those gruesome robots which had restrained the trio — and the Astropath — reminded Jaq so strongly of images he had viewed of traitor legionnaires , the polluted renegades spawned by the would-be Emperor-slayers of long ago who now lurked in a certain terrible , twisted zone of the galaxy … |
| 21 | He could not reconcile it with the images he had preserved . |
| 22 | He had felt distress and pity for the sufferings he had seen about him , but they had not struck home to his heart as seeing McAllister brought so low had done . |
| 23 | The wind blew down the tents of the other lads he had joined in camping on an apparently sheltered spot in a hollow above the sea . |
| 24 | She stood for a long time , trying to make sense of her feelings , the words he had said tumbling around in her brain . |
| 25 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 26 | Looking again at the words he had written he realized that his face was once more tightening , his lips once again curling . |
| 27 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |
| 28 | After the words he had written to her , it was churlish of her to avoid him , but she dreaded any interview because of what she must say . |
| 29 | It sounded like an echo of words he had heard before . |
| 30 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |