Example sentences of "he had to say " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to hear what else he had to say , ’ complained Tom . |
| 2 | One of the most respected of our club members , on our committee of management , Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov , an elderly man ad highly esteemed , had formed the innocent habit of following anything he had to say with the vehement addition , ‘ No , sir , you ca n't lead me by the nose ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Rose , ’ he had to say again . |
| 4 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 5 | Jostling , raspberrying and treading on each other 's toes , they crowded round their officer to hear what he had to say . |
| 6 | Asked in February 1987 what he had to say about the conclusions of the Tower Report , the first detailed inquiry into the affair , he referred reporters to ‘ the eighth Beatitude of Matthew 5 ’ : ‘ Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness ' sake , for theirs is the kingdom of heaven . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ When she had repeated herself five or six times , the CIA man slammed the phone down in a rage , and Reagan never learned what he had to say . ’ |
| 8 | For them , he had to say : ‘ Islam is being violated in its very being . ’ |
| 9 | ( A famous actor interviewed recently on the radio said that , when he had learned his part in a play , he did not just know the words he had to say but where the new paragraphs came and when he had to turn the page of the script . |
| 10 | What he had to say could wait until morning . |
| 11 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 12 | She would see what he had to say as personal criticism and that was something which in his experience few women could take . |
| 13 | What he had to say was more than interesting . |
| 14 | He adapted what he had to say according to those he was concerned with and their situation . |
| 15 | He stuttered out what he had to say . |
| 16 | Perhaps he assumed a little too readily that his audience understood what he had to say . |
| 17 | He felt his influence therefore to be transmitted entirely through his books , and in these , which were so often destroyed , what he had to say was constantly repeated . |
| 18 | He had to say that it was neither suitable nor adequate for a paying patient … any extras had to be brought in by friends . |
| 19 | I listened closely to what he had to say , but I then pressed him to name the best-known avant-garde artists for me . |
| 20 | He had to say that any effect produced by a talisman around the neck was to be ascribed to the devil , whereas effects due to Christian amulets came from God 's goodness . |
| 21 | Constanza agreed with much of what he had to say ; but he did not know of any way of not letting down Anna either . |
| 22 | Plastering his face with grease and wiping away Hook 's villainous eyebrows , he said what he had to say . |
| 23 | But there were obviously still more things he had to say . |
| 24 | He did n't rise to it ; simply carried on with what he had to say . |
| 25 | ‘ Listen , ’ Francis 's tone sharpened ; he 'd remembered something he had to say . |
| 26 | Tealtaoich stood quite still , regarding the waiting Trees and seeing that they were listening and apparently politely prepared to hear anything he had to say . |
| 27 | He did not say that he hoped Floy and Snodgrass were all right , because he did not think he had to say it . |
| 28 | When he returned the people gathered round him to hear what he had to say . |
| 29 | He advanced on her , pleading she should believe what he had to say . |
| 30 | If Libya was solely responsible , why had the US government gone to such lengths to silence one of its own intelligence agents on the subject of the DEA 's operations in Cyprus , and when the discredit what he had to say ? |