Example sentences of "[coord] he had get " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maidstone was used to all this and he had got the procedures worked out so well that very little mess was involved . |
| 2 | He had wanted a male grandchild and he had got a male grandchild ; that should be enough for everybody … [ 18 ] The good news therefore was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as dismay in Woburn Square , where the John Pontifexes were then living . |
| 3 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 4 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 5 | He had tried all his usual lines , Paul , Garvin , others , the ones he always used when he wanted to get official policy reversed or amended , and he had got nowhere . |
| 6 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 7 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 8 | But in the end when he went back she was asleep , and he did n't wake her because there were few enough hours before dawn , and he had to get through a day — a series of days — that would put to the test the most dangerous set of manoeuvres he had ever conducted . |
| 9 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 10 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |
| 11 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 12 | By the time Owen arrived the crowd was sixty deep and he had to get his constables to clear a way through . |
| 13 | Third did he ? the first which was the Sunday and he had to get it ready because they were coming in on the Tuesday , on the third . |
| 14 | The butcher 's shop looked right enough , but he had got his meat from Smithfield market , not from the farmer who 'd raised it . |
| 15 | He had not got very much information but he had got all that she could offer , he was sure of that . |
| 16 | Anselm had not yet visited Canterbury , but he had got hold of the one thing necessary for understanding the members of the old monastic community : they wanted recognition of their saints and understanding of their tradition . |
| 17 | PC Roy McGregor then phoned the girl and said her boyfriend had AIDS — but he had got the wrong name , Kilmarnock Sheriff Court heard yesterday . |
| 18 | Denis was the kind of man who was rarely taken seriously , especially by his own family , but he had to get these three down to sleep before anything started in the other room . |
| 19 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |