Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] he had the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 2 | She knew he had the Master Sergeant 's genes and she was worried he 'd grow up to be an adulterer , just like his dad . |
| 3 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 4 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 5 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 6 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 7 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 8 | In this endeavour he thought he had the backing of the great poets and romancers , like Sir Thomas Malory or the anonymous authors of Pearl and Beowulf and The Wanderer . |
| 9 | He thought he had the upper hand while she was trapped here , and he was right — it made her feel awkward and uneasy , put her at a disadvantage . |
| 10 | Berle hoped to have the British blamed for breaking up the conference , as he knew he had the support of the Latin American states and some European countries . |
| 11 | He knew he had the tournament won , but he was so high he could n't even line up the putt . |
| 12 | And he knew he had the backing of the President and most of the powerful Republican congressmen on Capitol Hill . |
| 13 | He felt he had the upper hand for once , and they had n't been able to set up the Microwave Gun yet , either ; he felt cool and relaxed . |
| 14 | He learned he had the Aids virus when his right hand suddenly went dead . |
| 15 | He said he had the agreement of the two leading parties . |
| 16 | He said he had the same ability as Wino but pointed out that he ( Gray ) was injured at 16 and never fully recovered , so his potential would have been even greater than it turned out . |
| 17 | He wished he had the way of talking to women , to individual strangers . |