Example sentences of "he had [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had pointed that out to Farag but Farag had not been put off . |
| 2 | But erm when I lost my sight then he had to close that down and come back so we were all under one roof again . |
| 3 | He was the nastiest , really dangerous because he felt he had to go that extra distance . |
| 4 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 5 | He does n't want anyone to think this sixteen-year-old changed his life , he had to do that for himself . |
| 6 | He had to do that before he joined the air force . |
| 7 | He had discovered that City opinion , for the interpretation of which he relied upon McKenna and which he had previously been informed was strongly against acceptance , had swung overwhelmingly in favour . |
| 8 | He had loved that girl from afar after that first incident , but she had been too full of fun and the love of life to worry about boyfriends . |
| 9 | It was patently obvious that she was n't going to get an opportunity to speak to Luke ; it seemed possible that he had manipulated that . |
| 10 | He had hoped that walking would keep him warm . |
| 11 | His head whirled with the names and faces of all the people he had met that day . |
| 12 | She smiled , suddenly the woman he had met that first time , laughing and self-confident , all depths , all subtleties gone from her . |
| 13 | Then he remembered the eager questioning eyes of the four women he had met that evening — it would hardly be suitable for them . |
| 14 | He had declared that " perestroika , in the form in which it was envisioned " , had failed . |
| 15 | He did n't fancy another trip to the chemist 's he had visited that morning . |
| 16 | He had made that appointment five days ago and it was one that he would keep . |
| 17 | Instantly she defended herself , just as she had when he had made that accusation before . |
| 18 | He had made that fact clear enough . |
| 19 | He added that he had made that decision in spite of an embargo on similar junctions after the Bellgrove train crash two years earlier . |
| 20 | Long after Mary Duncan was asleep James continued to sit beside her , his thoughts disturbed by the day 's events , and little Anna Beckett , whom he had seen that afternoon , kept tugging at his conscience . |
| 21 | It seemed impossible that this might become a battlefield , and perhaps it would not , for Sharpe was already beginning to doubt what he had seen that same morning . |
| 22 | Another officer concluded his own harrowing account of what he had seen that day : The whole affair and its conduct was the most brutal and disgusting I have ever witnessed . |
| 23 | He had accepted that . |
| 24 | Inside Cabinet , he had played that role , with the required public discretion , to argue the case for council house sales , industrial competition , and the inner cities policy . |
| 25 | He had played that part well , certainly at least as well as the actor who was to take over from him . |
| 26 | He had heard that expression before . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When , quite soon after the funeral , seeing how calm she was , he had imagined that possibility he had been surprised at his reluctance to believe it . |
| 29 | Dougal glanced at her face , wondering if he had imagined that note of amused satisfaction in her voice . |
| 30 | He could not recapture the certainty he had felt that morning . |