Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun sg] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fire sub-officer Paul , 33 , knew nothing could be done for the car couple , but he realised the lorryman had not got out . |
| 2 | But on closer inspection he realised the writer had actually turned out quite a nifty show . |
| 3 | Robert Montague was staying at a friend 's house in Cornwall one long , wet weekend in early December when he realised the moment had come to strike . |
| 4 | Reluctantly , he agreed the exchange had taken place , and I rushed the story to London . |
| 5 | He agreed the team had infringed the defendants ' rights when they wrote a book on the case . |
| 6 | Count Tolstoy argued that he should have libel damages waived against him because the man with whom he shared the debt had reached a separate agreement with Lord Aldington . |
| 7 | He realized the boy had grown in the two months since he had last seen him and looked at him carefully , noticing the way his wrists poked out of the shirt and the slight roughness of the clear skin . |
| 8 | He admitted the Council had begun slowly , but said that was inevitable , and that bishops would work better now they had come to understand different points of view . |
| 9 | How could he know the man had his creatures planted even there to watch for him ? |
| 10 | He found the weather had turned foggy again . |
| 11 | Once out of the shelter of the bank he found the wind had strengthened . |
| 12 | The organiser of the convoy is the Reverend John Evans who 's a priest in charge of 3 churches in the Bicester area , he says the project had humble beginnings . |
| 13 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |
| 14 | He had walked along this track with Sandy , arm in arm , and as the wind beat in his face he recalled the weather had been similar . |
| 15 | Further , he believed the Board had no evidence of other successful experience in partnership with the WEA which might offset or counter Watts 's trenchant criticism . |
| 16 | Peter Preston , editor of The Guardian newspaper and a member of the watchdog Press Complaints Commission , said he believed The Sun had not broken the speech embargo but had simply published a story ahead of time . |
| 17 | He believed the order had been given to kill him by the DO . |
| 18 | He told her he believed the Lord had sent her to teach and counsel a group . |
| 19 | But Major , who will be meeting the IOC president , Juan Antonio Samaranch , in Lausanne in April to push Manchester 's case , said he believed the city had come from ‘ overwhelming underdogs ’ last year to become joint favourites with Sydney and Peking . |
| 20 | One of them grabbed the youth by the neck as he approached a police van in Tarling Street , Stepney , east London , telling officers he believed the youth had been involved in an attack on an elderly woman . |
| 21 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 22 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 23 | He was unable to tell Mr Gannon 's family how long the infection had been present but he believed the infection had spread through Mr Gannon 's blood rather than through any internal rupture . |
| 24 | He had made it clear at Beechwood that he believed the paper had to be pop , pop , pop if it was going to sell a million . |
| 25 | Sometimes , he assumed the Elder had been around since the Creation . |
| 26 | He claimed the ball had hit his bat , the square-leg umpire agreed and he was recalled , much to the chagrin of the bowler , Ian Beven . |
| 27 | He claimed the firm had had previous difficulties in getting paid by the council , with one school not paying for five months . |
| 28 | He reckoned the boy had doubled the price for his ice cream because he was up at the smart end of town , not plying his usual pitch at the bottom of the Acropolis . |
| 29 | He reckoned the machine had swallowed his card , cos , he said , he 'd got his money and then waited for it to come out but it had n't appeared . |
| 30 | The minister disappointed some supporters when he confirmed the Government had abandoned plans for legislation to curb the activities of the National Union of Students . |