Example sentences of "had he [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet had he decided the reverse it was already clear that the League of Nations lacked the will-power to say him nay . |
| 2 | My father would probably have agreed with him , had he given the subject his attention . |
| 3 | Why had he given the EQ such power ? |
| 4 | No sooner had he shut the door than his wife found him out . |
| 5 | He had never been inside the box , nor had he seen the Decontamination Centre that was alongside , nor the Liquid Waste plant . |
| 6 | The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit . |
| 7 | Had he seen the timer in a shop window at half the price , he would have ignored it . |
| 8 | No sooner had he freed the platform of the Collector 's superfluous presence than the Doctor sprang into his place and held up his hand for silence . |
| 9 | Cramer started at the beginning : Why had he quit the flat in Kensington ? |
| 10 | And why had he felt the need to go on pretending right up until the very last minute ? |
| 11 | Had he survived the maelstrom of the psychedelic '60s , guitar god Jim Hendrix would be pushing 50 this year . |
| 12 | W. B. Yeats [ q.v. ] dismissed him as ‘ all blood , dirt , and sucked sugar-stick ’ , yet it is likely that , had he survived the war , Owen would have grown in stature to span the native tradition between Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin [ qq.v . ] . |
| 13 | Had he missed the cut , Woosnam would not even have had that to watch on Saturday , since the network went off the air with about an hour 's play left in a move that would have angered Great Britain . |
| 14 | But had he guessed the rest of it ? |
| 15 | Had he heard the evidence now placed before us , he may not have been wholly convinced by it but , in my view , he could not have been sure that the appellants had knowingly breached the court order and , therefore , he could not have been sure that they were in contempt . |
| 16 | Had he secured the garage door ? |
| 17 | Had he imagined the enemy this morning ? |
| 18 | Was it just to save money , or had he imagined the atmosphere would perhaps induce a miscarriage ? |
| 19 | Had he overstepped the limit ? |
| 20 | Never again had he thought the love of woman could touch his heart , not after the pain of knowing Tatiana was lost to him for ever . |
| 21 | When the Prime Minister told us on Tuesday that , like the British economy , Japan 's economy was , as he put it , in recession , had he overlooked the fact that last year , while our economy shrank by 2.5 per cent. , Japan 's economy grew by 4.5 per cent. ? |
| 22 | This judicial tinkering was justified because the court was ‘ sure that the altered decision represent[ed] that which the decision-maker would have enacted had he appreciated the limitation on his powers ’ . |
| 23 | And why had he persuaded the director to hire her ? |
| 24 | Had he taken the bismuth with him ? |
| 25 | As with so many things , no sooner had he taken the idea to himself than he began to resent it passionately . |
| 26 | He had let out a number of slow deep breaths as if he had got out of a tight corner , but no sooner had he entered the room again than Lizzie said , ‘ Does Maggie know of this ? ’ |
| 27 | It seemed to Joe that his mother was waiting behind the hall door for him , because no sooner had he entered the house than there she was , staring at him over the distance . |
| 28 | This leaves us to assume that the beneficiary ought to pay in the event that ( iii ) it could not be shown that the testator , had he known the land was pledged , would have left something else or ( iv ) the testator did not know the land was pledged . |
| 29 | Had he known the truth it might have made his loss that bit more bearable . ’ |
| 30 | Had he left the resort ? |