Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | A romantic orphan , though , who was able to accept that he had caused his brother to suffer . |
| 2 | Now , in the faint light of the dawning day she had to accept that he had not done so . |
| 3 | ‘ The trouble was , Len himself refused to accept that he had a problem , ’ said Martin . |
| 4 | She had to know that he had considered and that he was committed by his reply . |
| 5 | Still , it was nice to know that he had . |
| 6 | She wanted to avoid Oliver , although she was desperate to know that he had moved out of the flat . |
| 7 | Pinkie could still think quite clearly enough to know that he had very little prospect of a new commission . |
| 8 | And how were they to know that he had not wanted very much ? or was that to be his real pleasure ? |
| 9 | But to know that he had been there , and she had n't seen him … |
| 10 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 11 | He was referring to print-outs that had enabled the US Congress to discover that he had been secretly bombing Cambodia . |
| 12 | When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch . |
| 13 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 14 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 15 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 16 | On our way we called on the established church minister , who had been the means of our coming to the Island , and with whom we had special business , and were immensely tickled to find that he had actually fled ! |
| 17 | While Donna lay in the bathtub , inaccurately bawling the bits she could remember of My Fair Lady , Alex dialled Matthew 's number , only to find that he had switched on his answering machine . |
| 18 | In her heart , Tallis had known that Scathach would not wait for her , but it still came as a shock to find that he had betrayed his word to her . |
| 19 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 20 | ‘ However , ’ said Canon Wheeler clearing his throat to indicate that he had n't finished and intended to keep the reins of conversation in his own hands , ‘ what chiefly worries me at the moment is the Old Man 's reaction . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy . |
| 22 | This particular morning , because his car had broken down , he was unable to take Mum to work and he had decided to have a lie-in . |
| 23 | It would have been difficult to accept if he had been killed so young in a car crash , but when it was so senseless … ‘ |
| 24 | It would be very interesting to know if he had seen any of their original works in London . |
| 25 | They wanted to know if he had ever grown a beard ? |
| 26 | The idea , as yet only half formed , seemed preposterous … and yet … it would be interesting to know if he had learned something of which she was unaware . |
| 27 | She had wanted to know if he had a wife , just out of normal curiosity , ever since she had first met him . |
| 28 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 29 | She discovered that he had urinary frequency and it was decided that a specimen of urine should be sent to the bacteriology laboratory to discover whether he had a urinary tract infection . |
| 30 | Alexei was shouting something , and he quickened his pace so that if it was abuse or a challenge , he would be able to pretend that he had not heard it . |