Example sentences of "he had say [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 2 | The former economics professor conceded that his plan to replace six indirect taxes with a 15 per cent goods and services tax ( GST ) , which he had said was essential to make Australia competitive , had been unpopular . |
| 3 | She soon realised that what he had said was true : taste and style were inborn . |
| 4 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |
| 5 | She thought that what he had said was likely to be either partially or totally untrue , but it was not her concern . |