Example sentences of "and he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 2 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 3 | Even young Mr Yardley had to be a possibility , if Mrs Doran was right and he had been ‘ hanging around ’ the tent instead of pursuing job opportunities in Burford . |
| 4 | His favourite topics were sex and sex and he had n't repeated himself once in three years . |
| 5 | Young Donald — his eyes were clear black-brown , like a lochan stained with peat , his hair was curly like a bull 's poll , and he had been a lovely lad until his father went away , clever with his hands , whittling pieces of wood and glueing them to make little windmills and watermills . |
| 6 | Well , they had penetrated Atholl 's bastion and he had had to meet ‘ his ’ people man to man , and man to woman , on a level , with no intermediary . |
| 7 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 8 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 9 | Nathan Cohen was one of them , and he had just cause to fear the upturn of the events , as did his younger brother , Horace . |
| 10 | I drew this to the attention of Mellowes , my line manager , at an early stage and he had made vague noises about something being in the pipeline . |
| 11 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 12 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 13 | He has got off lightly : we learn with mildly comic surprise of mitigating circumstances : he had been good to a consumptive fellow student , and he had saved two children from a blazing house , getting burnt himself while doing so . |
| 14 | Rhetoric was a thing he would gladly have murdered ; and he had already carried out his theory of honest thinking at the expense of considerable financial and perhaps emotional sacrifices . |
| 15 | He said that while he viewed the ‘ inner circle ’ story as nonsense , the allegations could not be ignored and he had asked Mr Stevens to investigate . |
| 16 | The fighting had stopped on 29 April 1945 , and he had spent 11 days in Allied-occupied Austria , leaving on 22 May . |
| 17 | It was important because subterfuge meant deception , and he had denied deceiving the Yugoslavs . |
| 18 | Whether he will be as successful again is open to doubt , because his own playing career was then an issue and he had substantial sympathy backing both inside and outside the committee and membership . |
| 19 | It had to be done , and he had known it would not be popular , but he added : ‘ Anyone who becomes Chancellor in order to be popular has chosen the wrong job . ’ |
| 20 | The knot under his chin was still firmly fastened and he had extensive burns on his head and face . |
| 21 | And he had another point for moving Ramsey . |
| 22 | And he had n't put any sound-proofing in . |
| 23 | And he had been right . |
| 24 | Using the solid material of history and science she had recreated , restored , raised up Fenna in her imagination and he had never gone away . |
| 25 | She had sucked comfort with the distant vibration of Fenna 's breathing rumbling down to his tail tip , and he had spun stories for her and woven them into dreams . |
| 26 | His maker , she repeated to herself firmly ; she was his maker , and he had no existence without her , without her consent and her will and her passion . |
| 27 | But by the latter part of the 1970s he experienced an irresistible urge to return to the private sector and he had a very clear idea of how he would go about it . |
| 28 | ‘ He was lucky in that too and he had no nerves . ’ |
| 29 | Rose had left out his brown suit and shirt and tie and socks and he had started to dress . |
| 30 | As a result his writing becomes less concerned with immediate political concerns and he had more time for reading and research . |