Example sentences of "[adv] he had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 2 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 3 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 4 | ( Obviously he had read a book on wine too . ) |
| 5 | All around him , backstabbing and financial disaster fomented chaos , inside he had discovered a universe of beauty and order . |
| 6 | The officer was duly fetched in and asked whether or not he had taken a statement from Wells . |
| 7 | Former pop star Dave Clark , who owns the rights to the Sixties music show , said yesterday he had clinched a deal with Channel 4 to screen 13 of the original episodes next year . |
| 8 | By now he had become a Test cricketer , having played in three of the exciting 1960–61 Tests against West Indies ( and substituted in the field in the tied Test at Brisbane , his first , at Melbourne , being the 500th Test match , and bringing him poignantly what were to remain best batting and bowling performances in an eight-Test career . |
| 9 | But now he had ignited a fire within her that could never be put out . |
| 10 | Years ago he had made a doll 's house for her ; he had made it beautifully with proper wallpaper in the rooms and a tiny lavatory but he never got around to making the roof or putting hinges on the back . |
| 11 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 12 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 13 | Since then he had attended a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party at which he , the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary had spoken . |
| 14 | But there he had directed a research laboratory with a common discipline . |
| 15 | His school was the County High School at Dagenham and from there he had won a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 16 | It was Fleury who , remembering how he had made a visor for his smoking cap , found the solution by whipping his Bible out of his shirt and tearing the boards off . |
| 17 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 18 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 19 | He should have seemed ridiculous , the big man , demonstrating how he had put a girl to flight , but I felt sorry for him . |
| 20 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 21 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 22 | He did n't go to Spain , instead he had booked a ticket to London , that was as far as he wanted to go . |
| 23 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 24 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |
| 25 | Kirk became known internationally as " Captain Kirk " in 1983 when he had led a fleet of fishing boats across the North Sea to challenge the 12-mile exclusion zone declared by the United Kingdom government [ see pp. 32340 ; 33681 ] . |
| 26 | He remembered when he had led a regiment of Church militia into the Swinkbacks , driving a ragged group of Jeopardites before them . |
| 27 | I once saw Bert cry tears when he had rouged a gnat 's cock too much off . |
| 28 | One day when he had sold a painting for a hundred francs , he spent it all on buying flowers for every woman who passed by in the street in a gesture that Modi much admired . |
| 29 | Under Reg 20 , an employer was to deduct tax at source at the basic rate where he had made a payment to an employee in respect of whom he had not received a code of authorisation , subject to certain conditions . |
| 30 | But the body of Mrs Wilks was not found until two days later , at the bottom of a motorway embankment two-and-a-half miles away , when a motorist took police to a spot where he had seen a silver Renault 25 parked . |