Example sentences of "had he [verb] the " 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 Why had he given the EQ such power ?
3 My father would probably have agreed with him , had he given the subject his attention .
4 Had he taught the young , visited the old and comforted the afflicted ?
5 Had he contested the Customs Officers ' decision , who would have supported him ?
6 Only en route had he understood the true implications .
7 No sooner had he shut the door than his wife found him out .
8 Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils .
9 Had he seen the timer in a shop window at half the price , he would have ignored it .
10 He had never been inside the box , nor had he seen the Decontamination Centre that was alongside , nor the Liquid Waste plant .
11 Had he seen the dogs wandering ?
12 The old warrior would have been flattered had he seen the care with which Washington prepared for his first visit .
13 Had he sensed the reckless hunger in her ?
14 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 .
15 Cramer started at the beginning : Why had he quit the flat in Kensington ?
16 And why had he felt the need to go on pretending right up until the very last minute ?
17 Lying contented in his arms , it was only as the euphoria gradually faded that Luce found herself wondering , had he felt the same ?
18 Had he survived the maelstrom of the psychedelic '60s , guitar god Jim Hendrix would be pushing 50 this year .
19 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 . ] .
20 Had he emphasised the ‘ you ’ , implying that she was n't worth lying to , or had she simply imagined the insult ?
21 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 .
22 But had he guessed the rest of it ?
23 For him to demand repeated empirical evidence at that stage was doubly unnecessary , for not only had he heard the words of Christ , he had listened to the eye-witness accounts of his fellow disciples .
24 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 .
25 Had he heard the accusations she 'd thrown at Doreen ?
26 Had he secured the garage door ?
27 Had he imagined the enemy this morning ?
28 Was it just to save money , or had he imagined the atmosphere would perhaps induce a miscarriage ?
29 Had he followed the verderers north and when they returned had he returned in their tracks ?
30 Long-time leader Mweenish would almost certainly have held on had he cleared the final obstacle without error .
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