Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He must have wished he had stayed at home . |
| 3 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 4 | He had stayed in bed until Emily was settled and then , very quietly , got up . |
| 5 | Using all the propagandist flair he had deployed against slavery in the Congo , Morel ran a frankly racist campaign against what he called ‘ The Black Horror on the Rhine ’ — the ( mythical ) sexual marauding of African troops stationed with the French occupying forces . |
| 6 | Except when he had to go to sea . |
| 7 | he had to go to hospital , he 's got arthritis in his legs from |
| 8 | He had to go to prison because of that , and then we all came back to England . |
| 9 | He would go to prison , if he had to go to prison , convinced of his rightness , proud of his martyrdom . |
| 10 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 11 | And after that he was er T B and he had to go in hospital . |
| 12 | His wife was Jewish , he had converted to Judaism . |
| 13 | In so deciding , he had to take into account the fact that it was plain that Wickes would , unless restrained , continue to act in contravention of section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 ; and that , in practical terms , proceedings by way of injunction were the only means open to the council to perform its duty to enforce the provisions of section 47 . |
| 14 | He said it was a preparation he had to take for diabetes . |
| 15 | The prominence he had given to instruction in science had evidently made matters worse . |
| 16 | C. T. threw himself into Christian activity with the same discipline and dedication he had given to cricket , and determined to join another well-known Cambridge athlete , Stanley Smith the oarsman , in the then little-known China Inland Mission led by J. Hudson Taylor [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 18 | Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 . |
| 19 | In support of this submission , Mr. Nicholls relied on the decision of the Court of Appeal in Reg. v. Donat ( 1985 ) 82 Cr.App.R. 173 , in which the Court of Appeal held that , on the facts of that case , in which a prosecution witness under cross-examination retracted evidence which he had given in chief implicating the defendant , the judge did not err in declining to withdraw the case from the jury on a submission of no case to answer , the credibility of the witness being essentially a matter for the jury . |
| 20 | Unlike the Shetland version where the baby was rescued by a young lad who later married the lass he had saved from death , the Faroese story is one of heroism but sadness , where the mother climbed to the eyrie ( which no man had ever been able to do ) only to find that her baby was dead . |
| 21 | Given this , Whitelocke was lucky to escape prosecution at the Restoration ; to the credit of both , he and Charles II made their peace when Whitelocke returned some royal manuscripts that he had saved from plunder and lectured the king about Welsh , which he said was ‘ his Majesty 's more ancient native language than English ’ . |
| 22 | At the time , he had shrugged without answering . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had written on behalf of a friend ‘ whose great curiosity in fruit has been terribly disappointed by the nurserymen ’ . |
| 25 | She knew everything he had written by heart . |
| 26 | In the introduction he had written in reference to Jakobson and Jones " s " shakespeare 's verbal art in Th'expence of spirit " that " There is too much information , not all of which is relevant to a critical understanding of the text " ( p. 7 ) . |
| 27 | In April 1981 he was again arrested for articles he had written in association with democracy activist Xu Wenli , tried in May 1982 and sent to prison . |
| 28 | Henry looked at the pages of script he had written in praise of the man he had helped on the way to eternal bliss , and found this to be true . |
| 29 | All Penny Seu Chen could tell me when I returned on Friday evening to find you gone was that you and he had flown to Hualien for the weekend . ’ |
| 30 | He himself spent hours in the chapel reserved for cadets , praying to the image of Rogal Dorn , and to the Emperor , attempting to recapture the moment when he had flown through fire , sure that this would stand him in good stead in battle . |