Example sentences of "he [verb] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | almost every he pass he made had an incorrect address — when back at the side he looked somehow better — a good thing to get £500,000 for the guy if plays like that all the time . |
| 2 | The Rhodian aristocratic merchants among whom he lived had hierarchy , but not extravagance . |
| 3 | The new renown of Walter Machin and the heady publicity which had resulted for the town in which he lived had suggested to the Arts Club committee ( a mixture of the local genteel and the local far left ) that a retrospective of the work of his stepson might neatly capitalize on the widespread interest . |
| 4 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 5 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 6 | He goes I ai n't scared of no bear ! and he goes had ! |
| 7 | Imagine his surprise , therefore , when he discovered that not a single German he met had ever been in the Nazi Party , let alone had even heard of a concentration camp . |
| 8 | Mr Howell had debts of £500,000 even after everything he owned had been sold . |
| 9 | A Christian bishop was bound to look in the Bible for precedents for his mode of action ; and what he found had many remarkable analogies with his own predicament . |
| 10 | Everyone in the castle where he lives had become totally reliant on him to do everything for them , so the loss of the magic is somewhat disastrous . |
| 11 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Underwood 's position as England 's leading try-scorer , with 35 to his credit , has a two-fold RAF connection because when he scored against Ireland in 1990 the record he overtook had previously been held by another RAF pilot and winger , Cyril Lowe , who totalled 18 between 1913 and 1923 when winning 25 consecutive caps . |
| 13 | He was somewhat reluctant to explain , but finally did so , although if the associative method that he used had got to the ears of his victims , it might have been embarrassing . |
| 14 | The building he proposed had two internal courts , and externally three stories of superimposed Corinthian columns , an arcaded first floor , a central porte-cochère and , as The Builder pointed out , detailed elements derived from Vignola . |
| 15 | He told had n't he , the manager . |
| 16 | Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them . |
| 17 | They argued that the principles he adopted had been politically motivated and should have had regard to the spending needs of each authority . |
| 18 | Quite apart from the conceptual fragility of the enterprise , Kane 's work suffers from a problem of method : his evidence for the above assertions was collected from a sample of sportsmen who had already achieved a level of success , in other words the sportsmen he studied had ‘ made it ’ . |
| 19 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 20 | He also hoped that success would build an unanswerable case for membership of the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System , which he believed had become vital . |
| 21 | If Duncombe was himself an unaccomplished poet , he certainly laboured to promote the work of women whom he believed had been undervalued . |
| 22 | This mild rebuke of the attitude of some missionaries to Indian thought and tradition corresponds to his criticism of orthodox Christianity , which he believed had distorted the message of Jesus . |
| 23 | A WELDER was jailed for nine months yesterday for accidentally killing a man he believed had burgled and ransacked his elderly mother 's home . |
| 24 | Mariátegui 's assertion of the need for a socialist revolution excluded the possibility of coopting the bourgeoisie , whom he believed had an intrinsic interest in collaborating with imperialism . |
| 25 | In Bennett v. Bale the defendant had invited a person to tell lies to disguise what he believed had been the commission of a licensing offence . |
| 26 | Private Lee Clegg ( 22 ) told Belfast Crown Court how he fired three aimed shots at the front windscreen of the car which he believed had struck his colleague , Private Barry Aindow . |
| 27 | father jailed for attacking a man he believed had assaulted his daughter has been reunited with his family . |
| 28 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 29 | ‘ Better get moving , ’ he thought He stopped as he turned Had he imagined it , no , he was sure something had flashed in the moonlight It must have been a good quarter of a mile away , towards the middle of the estuary . |
| 30 | The exercise led to a bizarre episode in 1967 , when the mayor of Londonderry , Councillor Albert Anderson , produced a letter which he claimed had come from the working committee . |