Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake . |
| 2 | I was better at maths and science and practical things — you only had to show him a lathe in the metal workshop for him to pretend he had a fainting fit but when he wanted to beat me , he beat me . |
| 3 | Staff there pursuaded him to report what had happened . |
| 4 | Staff there pursuaded him to report what had happened . |
| 5 | Those who remember him say he had an uncanny knack of being instantly able to visualise a course even over rough ground or farmland . |
| 6 | A few folk went to his place before sunrise yesterday , just to let him know he had better have no hand in the lists . |
| 7 | Luke Calder 's presence at the station was a fact of life , and she had to learn how to handle it or give up her job , and pride would never allow her to do that and let him know he had won . |
| 8 | If it might benefit Kirsty for him to know what had really happened between herself and Ryan , would she be justified in breaking her promise ? |
| 9 | There were a thousand uses for Herrick 's implants , but most would be used as they had on Haavikko — to make a man vulnerable by making him believe he had done something when he had n't . |
| 10 | But another look at her face , just blankly polite , made him decide he had imagined the irony . |
| 11 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 12 | When at last they did see him coming they had to follow his slow path from the road , watch him lean his bicycle carefully against the wall under the yew and plod slowly up between the two rows of boxwood . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | ‘ He brought a letter with him saying he had broken school rules . |
| 15 | But on spying Mitchell 's cherubic features , the proprietor refused to serve him saying he had received instructions by ‘ phone not to . |
| 16 | He did so ‘ to incapacitate him — to make him realise he had just injured one of my colleagues . ’ |
| 17 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 18 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Fang then turned to Mr Brownlow and angrily told him to describe what had happened . |
| 20 | She did n't want him to think she had dressed up for him , or anything . |
| 21 | Although Frank obtained a first-class diploma from the College , he did not find an opening in farming and his thoughts turned once more to medicine for which his experiences at College led him to think he had an aptitude . |
| 22 | Here we had a man who we knew had serious problems that constituted a danger to himself and others , and we sat back , simply because we were waiting for him to admit he had a problem . ’ |
| 23 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 24 | The blind man called the police when he realised they had stolen his brown leather wallet . |
| 25 | He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened . |
| 26 | Cheltenham taxi driver , Richard Morris says he was on cloud 9 when he realised what had happened . |
| 27 | He realised I had finally caught him … |
| 28 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 29 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 30 | He realised he had been , and clamped his lips . |