Example sentences of "had [verb] [subord] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 2 | Everyone had to wait until he returned . |
| 3 | I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes . |
| 4 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 5 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 6 | It was partly rotten , and had broken when he struck with it , but it was sound enough and heavy enough to stun . |
| 7 | In his view Fraser had delayed because he did n't want to face the truth . |
| 8 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 9 | On the same programme , Lord Mackay said he believed the bill was a full response to the protests he had received since he announced the proposed changes . |
| 10 | The impression of suppressed energy which he had received as he arrived was intensified ; Peter Yeo could barely sit still and was discharging tension by moving papers on his desk , then fiddling with the Venetian blinds to prevent the sun from shining in Catherine 's eyes . |
| 11 | After a birdie at the first , we ran into a bit of trouble at the 6th , a hole Lee had criticized because he felt you should n't have to ‘ lay up ’ on any par-4in an Open . |
| 12 | Noboru Takeshita had to go because he received undeclared sums of money from the Recruit publishing-to-property conglomerate . |
| 13 | More than one unwary member of the garrison found that his bed had vanished while he had been defending the rampart against a sepoy assault . |
| 14 | All humour had vanished as he turned to face her , dropping her key on to the stand beside the door , his features stamped with hostility . |
| 15 | ’ He was wandering now , his voice had dropped as he struggled to keep his thread and a restlessness at the back of the gathering broke out in shouts of ‘ Speak up ! |
| 16 | He had been too young to read the note but he could still remember how that table had looked when he came in , its top at the time the height of his own shoulder . |
| 17 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 18 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 19 | She knew why he had come before he knocked on her door . |
| 20 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 21 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 22 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 23 | It was to be many years later that I learned of the strictures Tata had accepted once he had proposed marriage to my mother , a Roman Catholic . |
| 24 | It was the first time they had met although he had known of her existence as he had of all the handful of people who lived , as the Lydsett villagers said , ‘ t' other side of the gate ’ . |
| 25 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 26 | She had turned as he entered , as if some mystical outside force had willed it . |
| 27 | Petion had to duck as he preceded the Doctor into an adobe-style blockhouse , which was refreshingly cool inside . |
| 28 | What a man had done before he joined up was the past , and the past was unconnected with the Legion , and therefore irrelevant . |
| 29 | If she had done as he had suggested , become a doctor maybe , or a teacher , he would be alive today and she would be living a normal life . |
| 30 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |