Example sentences of "he had develop a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he left , after numerous rows with American socialists , though the class struggle was still his main concern , he had developed a new sympathy with cultural and political nationalism , his character had mellowed , and he had matured into a thinker of depth , breadth , and originality , and an orator of force and passion . |
| 2 | Cook was thus greatly distressed and bewildered to learn that the New Zealand Maori , for whom he had developed a respectful admiration , ate their defeated enemies without compunction ! |
| 3 | In 1870 he followed Stroudley , with whom he had developed a close friendship , when the latter moved to the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway as locomotive and carriage superintendent and became locomotive and carriage works manager of that railway . |
| 4 | He walked her out the doors and down the steps , and kissed her on the cheek as if she were an old maiden aunt he had developed a polite affection for . |
| 5 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 6 | As this summer , even hotter and drier than the last , worked its way up to August , Robert found he had developed a rich repertoire of twitches and guilty tics . |
| 7 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 8 | He had developed a droning style of speaking , and the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends . |
| 9 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 10 | He had developed a fine pair of shoulders , and his biceps bulged under his short-sleeved singlet : his arms seemed to have grown unnaturally long and appeared simian . |
| 11 | Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs . |
| 12 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |