Example sentences of "he had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However irrational , she knew that her love for him had somehow betrayed Philippe . |
| 2 | You were quite right about Ken Noakes — my experience with him had temporarily made me lose faith in men , and in myself . |
| 3 | To eliminate him had also been to destroy a dream . |
| 4 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 5 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 6 | No matter what he 'd done to her , her feelings for him had n't changed . |
| 7 | As they drove out of town , along the quiet roads to the country , it became clear to Juliet that the brandy and soda her father had given him had n't been Nigel 's first drink of the evening . |
| 8 | Well he 'd got a seven year old girl copying him had n't he ? |
| 9 | And apparently the one that had gone out to him had n't found him , so they sent another one and he found him straight away with his directions . |
| 10 | Anyway so he goes is James there and I went yeah and he goes mm , so I went I think so , I 'd better go and get him had n't I |
| 11 | An argument developed because Mr Brown told her that the new chauffeur the company had just taken on could use her car while she was away , as the car that had been ordered for him had not arrived . |
| 12 | A Sylvie for whom the promise of America with him had not borne fruit . |
| 13 | Four knights at least , all Grey 's men ; and a rugged , thickset figure in half-armour , whose seat in the saddle was familiar , even if the black horse under him had not been so signally ornamented with his blazon . |
| 14 | When the door had opened to admit her , the waiting tension still gnawing at him had finally transformed itself into swift action , and he 'd been too busy quitting the bed and judging the right moment to attack to identify the intruder . |
| 15 | He smiled at her , but the concern she 'd once felt for him had wholly dissipated . |
| 16 | Her attraction to him had hardly been swathed in subtlety . |
| 17 | Arguing with him had about as much effect as a snowflake falling on a pond . |
| 18 | His pleasure that Curzon had agreed to serve under him had quickly evaporated . |
| 19 | But his insistence that she leave everything to him had only served to strengthen her determination to be independent . |
| 20 | The assistant putting that bib on him had foolishly come too close . |
| 21 | No king before him had ever assumed so complete a spiritual leadership of the English church . |
| 22 | Everything people said about Kelly was supposition , nothing against him had ever been proved and in this country you were innocent until proven guilty . |
| 23 | Besides , apart of him had always enjoyed hospitals . |
| 24 | Sex with him had always been good . |
| 25 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 26 | The accused , a 40-year-old police officer with a wife and a recently discarded mistress , claimed that the woman in question , to whom he had casually given a lift , offered him sex in return . |
| 27 | She was torn between a desire to hurt him , by releasing the hate and resentment which had been steadily accumulating inside her ever since he had casually annexed her mind and body , and a craven reluctance to precipitate their separation . |
| 28 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 29 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 30 | It 's best to let it out , ’ he said kindly , aware that he had rarely followed his own advice . |