Example sentences of "he had [verb] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , by the 1740s , the Swedish taxonomist Linnaeus found it incredible that the fifty-six hundred species he had named could have been crammed into the elaborate vessels designed by biblical literalists . |
| 2 | He had thought he had not cared what became of him in the battle and he had thought that , when it was over , he would return to the Wolfwood and that the creatures amongst whom he had lived would return , also . |
| 3 | Doc Threadneedle had warned her that the alterations he had made would affect her mind , so she could be confused without realizing it . |
| 4 | What he had to say could wait until morning . |
| 5 | Omar assured us that the Somalis he had engaged would wait contentedly with the camels until we turned up . |
| 6 | Secondly , any training he had received would have been conventional or vapid , as a result of German supervision of art education . |
| 7 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 8 | The doctor , when he had first seen her , had awakened a creature deep within him that he had thought would sleep for ever — until the day he died . |
| 9 | What he had feared would happen was happening now , though the feeling he had was not of being in any way rejected , nor was it embarrassment . |
| 10 | ‘ I could n't diet , ’ Robyn declared , deliberately not allowing herself to imagine what all the women he had known would look like . |
| 11 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 12 | More use of the live plants which he had assembled would have been preferred . |
| 13 | He put down in detail what he had expected would happen with respect to each of them , what actually did happen , and why , if there was a discrepancy , the two differed . |
| 14 | The thirty he had looked would seem old enough to a child of eleven . |