Example sentences of "[conj] he had [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vulgar speculation about his love life usually enraged Richard ; there was still a mark on the pearl damask wall where he had hurled a glass of whisky on receiving the news that People magazine had voted him the World 's Sexiest Man of 1984 . |
| 2 | The younger one of Lord Shelley 's sons had come via Windsor Castle where he had shared a dancing class with the Princesses . |
| 3 | A little later , Oliver woke up and was very anxious to tell his story , although he had lost a lot of blood and was very weak . |
| 4 | The loan of similar garments had been offered to both Alexei and Jotan ; but Alexei had not felt the need of protection from the elements and neither , apparently , had Jotan , although he had borrowed a sword . |
| 5 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for years , it was not until last April that inoperable lung cancer was diagnosed . |
| 6 | Although he had had a smoker 's cough for many years , it was less than a year ago that he was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer . |
| 7 | In the end of season video ( I think ) he mentioned that he had recognised a problem at right back VERY early on . |
| 8 | Andy knew that he had to shoot a birdie himself to have a chance of forcing a ‘ sudden death ’ play-off . |
| 9 | I remember one time I reported that he had developed a cough and back came a directive that we should try to make an audio recording of it . |
| 10 | They thought that he reconciled himself too easily to his position , and that he had developed a taste for exile as an escape from business . |
| 11 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 12 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 13 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 14 | This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa . |
| 15 | Rejecting medical evidence that he had suffered a heart attack brought on by stress and aggravated by a syphilitic condition , the Nazis used the funeral to turn the dead man into a Nazi martyr . |
| 16 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 17 | On the radio link Richie reported that he had scored a net 69 , which was likely to stand as the best score of the day . |
| 18 | Now another from the direction of the short 16th must mean that he had scored a birdie 2 . |
| 19 | He reported that he had met a survivor from the heroic days , an ancient Indian hag , he said , bald as a vulture and wizened as a walnut , with one black tooth left in her head . |
| 20 | He said that he had faced a dilemma about whether to choose a Bill that would make the headlines or one that would be passed . |
| 21 | He went to the youth 's ‘ assistance , ’ only to find later that he had assaulted a policeman who had seen the youth committing an offence . |
| 22 | His spontaneous reports in later sessions suggested that he had made a beginning in that direction , and had even begun to apply , with colleagues outside the group and with the boy 's mother , the skills used in the group . |
| 23 | It was not his way to admit that he had made a mistake . |
| 24 | The solicitor who drafted the will later acknowledged that he had made a mistake . |
| 25 | The only one who ever admitted later that he had made a mistake was Kenneth Williams . ’ |
| 26 | I have already mentioned the argument on this occasion which convinced Lanfranc that he had made a mistake in sweeping the former archbishop Elphege out of the ecclesiastical calendar . |
| 27 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
| 28 | At the time he told his son that he thought that he had made a discovery which would prove comparable in importance with those of Newton . |
| 29 | Jordan must have felt that he had made a dent , he went on relentless . |
| 30 | Then he deliberately looked back to meet her eyes so that she would know that he had made a decision With a slight lift of his shoulders , he accepted his decision . |