Example sentences of "had he [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he written about the great hunt , the rites of the warriors ? |
| 2 | Had he worried about the possibility of atomic warfare when he was attempting to split the atom , he would never have gone on ; and we would have lost the many benefits nuclear physics has given us , such as freely available power and treatment of disease . |
| 3 | Had he paused before taking up his pen , and listened to the ghost of Jeeves , he would certainly have heard a deprecatory cough and the chilling words : ‘ I would scarcely advocate it , sir . ’ |
| 4 | Early in the thirteenth century the aspirations of the knightly class were summed up in the Life of William the Marshal , a great man who , had he lived in the twentieth century , might have made his choice between being a high civil servant and a champion professional boxer . |
| 5 | He hated the snapper , a perpetual howl and mess in the morning , and Phillis , whatever had he seen in her ? |
| 6 | What had he done with that wallet ? |
| 7 | What had he done with his pyjamas ? |
| 8 | Dear God , what had he done to her ? |
| 9 | What had he done in his last incarnation to deserve it ? |
| 10 | In the three and a half years between his abdication and the summer of Dunkirk , King Edward , had he remained on the Throne , might have developed differently . |
| 11 | Having forsaken the millions he would have made had he remained at LWT , Birt will at least want the prestige and power of the DG-ship . |
| 12 | He cast off his home and his country because he was disgusted by its slovenliness of intellectual outlook , although he was certain ( with his gifts ) of success and reputation had he remained in his own land ; and he was wholly unknown and unsupported when he attempted to browbeat London . |
| 13 | He had no alternative ; had he remained in London after 1920 , the antagonism to him could only have got more obdurate and more brutal . |
| 14 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 15 | He believes that had he remained in Belfast , his elevation to the Ulster team and the Irish squad might have come much earlier . |
| 16 | Perhaps de Gaulle was enough of a pragmatist to have made those adjustments himself , had he remained in power . |
| 17 | Jose-Maria Olazabal rarely comes up short on birdie putts , but then never before had he putted for $700,000 . |
| 18 | Nor had he wanted to … |
| 19 | Would the outcome have been different had he acknowledged to himself what he was doing ? he wrote . |
| 20 | Had he gone to Glastonbury or come back by a secret route to Templecombe to hide himself in the church ? |
| 21 | The next question was why had he gone to so much trouble and expense if he never intended to use this place as his base ? |
| 22 | Had he gone to a National Health hospital |
| 23 | Had he gone via Windlesham Avenue and the comprehensive ? |
| 24 | Had he gone into one of the other houses ? |
| 25 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 26 | Had he gone into the wood to find a way to cure the blemish ? |
| 27 | What had he said to her ? |
| 28 | What had he said about getting the Bishop to absolve her sins ? |
| 29 | What had he said about rape ? |
| 30 | But never had he felt for any woman the things he felt for Julia Gillingham . |