Example sentences of "[coord] he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the branch had been rotten or he had missed his aim . |
| 2 | Or he had seen and could n't believe it . |
| 3 | He was either trying to force Jesus ' hand to make him fight or he had become so disappointed in Jesus that he acted out of bitterness . |
| 4 | Either he abandoned his defence of his own conduct in favour of a complete recantation , or he had to go . |
| 5 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 6 | Christie 's mouth was now quite dry , and he had to gather saliva before he could speak . |
| 7 | He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop . |
| 8 | Philip had been slow to move and he had gained little by coronation by such a lowly archbishop as Tarentaise — Trier , Salzburg , Bremen and Magdeburg were all unavailable . |
| 9 | Father used to do that , he would sit in the evening then and he had to scratch on this b it was a like a tin plate with a black sort of area to scratch |
| 10 | He had written twice asking for a meeting , and he had received no reply . |
| 11 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 12 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 13 | But not out yet , his savaged leg : and he had to turn — the door opened in on him — and Anton , sprung as a cat ; this opening , what he had sought , again flung himself at the foreman , who , caught by surprise , new horror , staggered back so that both of them , locked as one , a horrific beast , fell out against the far wall , the urinal , where : so long ago , as aeons past , Parker had first made his move . |
| 14 | The ground and the weight seemed too much for him and he had retired from contention before the penultimate fence . |
| 15 | When he left , after numerous rows with American socialists , though the class struggle was still his main concern , he had developed a new sympathy with cultural and political nationalism , his character had mellowed , and he had matured into a thinker of depth , breadth , and originality , and an orator of force and passion . |
| 16 | However , his candidature in 1911 had been aided by three factors : he was a Conservative rather than a Liberal Unionist , but he was the sort of Conservative who would be acceptable to Liberal Unionists as well ; he was a diehard in opinion , but he had remained loyal to Balfour 's policy throughout the recent twists and turns ; and he had staked a claim by his abandonment of his safe London seat to fight North-West Manchester in December 1910 ( at no real risk , for an alternative safe seat was always available to him if and when he lost ) . |
| 17 | He had the sensibility to see what war now really meant , and he had to power to explain it . |
| 18 | Kevin Drummond , QC , for McMartin , said the accused had gone to the police with his parents almost immediately and he had pled guilty to greatly reduced charges . |
| 19 | She had seen her general practitioner a week after the separation and he had prescribed a tranquillizer . |
| 20 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
| 21 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 22 | We slept and when we woke you were here and he had gone . ’ |
| 23 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 24 | But then , afterwards , I learned that the other members of the party had accepted him as a bachelor and he had gone along with that . ’ |
| 25 | When Margaret and he had gone , Maura thought about what had happened . |
| 26 | His equanimity was legendary amongst his colleagues and he had gone out of his way to make her feel a part of the team when she first arrived at UNACO . |
| 27 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 28 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 29 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 30 | She had gone to the cloakroom at the back of the building to put on her white coat and he had gone to the box in Chief Inspector Martin 's office to switch off the system which protected the inner doors of the main Laboratory rooms . |