Example sentences of "[noun] he had [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 2 | He was so close that Polly could feel his body warmth and smell the soap he had used that morning . |
| 3 | Earlier on in the same piece of writing , in the same letter to the Philippians he had said that for him to die was gain . |
| 4 | We argued and discussed — and in the morning he had scrapped that idea and had several others to offer in its place . |
| 5 | His head whirled with the names and faces of all the people he had met that day . |
| 6 | She smiled , suddenly the woman he had met that first time , laughing and self-confident , all depths , all subtleties gone from her . |
| 7 | Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back . |
| 8 | Now he checked with the policeman whose beat took him down Glenfair Road , the main thoroughfare into which Boundary Drive ran ; The list of car numbers he had noted that evening for one reason or another was unproductive . |
| 9 | He could not recapture the certainty he had felt that morning . |
| 10 | At this stage the director revealed news of a letter he had submitted that afternoon to his colleague , verifying that he was serious about resigning . |
| 11 | Ronni got in , feeling a welcome dart of annoyance at the way he had issued that curt command . |
| 12 | Then he remembered the eager questioning eyes of the four women he had met that evening — it would hardly be suitable for them . |
| 13 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 14 | There was the slimy membrane and some messy stuff that Nails cleared away diligently and threw outside ; he got some fresh straw and by the time he had done that the foal was trying to stand up , with great difficulty . |