Example sentences of "he had [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1923 he had himself mentioned Smith 's work , and in 1925 he published Smith 's long essay on ‘ The Glamour of Gold ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Shamir , besieged by his party 's hawks , refused to accept America 's terms for holding Israeli-Palestinian talks in Cairo to prepare the election he had himself proposed for the occupied West Bank and Gaza . |
| 3 | He had himself witnessed the ‘ dissidence of dissent ’ as a child : his father , a stonemason in Hexham , left the local Congregational chapel when the new minister turned out to be an Arminian , and migrated , somewhat illogically for a Calvinist , to the local Wesleyan chapel . |
| 4 | But when his father 's will revealed that his marriage to Venetia might mean his losing £10,000 a year ( approximately £400,000 today ) he defeated it by the simple but ruthless stratagem of getting Venetia converted to the faith which he had himself rejected in everything except name . |
| 5 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 6 | But I recall Lord Darlington opening the discussions by formally welcoming the guests , before going on to outline the strong moral case for a relaxing of various aspects of the Versailles treaty , emphasizing the great suffering he had himself witnessed in Germany . |
| 7 | He appears to have been pleased that someone was fostering the substance which so interested him , and went away with a sample of Oxford material , which was more potent than any he had himself prepared . |
| 8 | His heart was buried in his first wife 's grave in Stinsford churchyard , beneath the tombstone he had himself designed to accommodate both their names . |
| 9 | An extra bottle of wine and some spare grub and he had himself a harmless court jester whose sallies were guaranteed to shock or amuse . |
| 10 | Parker , he was all caught up ; for he could not ward what he had himself created , fumbled for the door-bolt . |
| 11 | He thought he recognised in Creed qualities that he had himself : the ability to wait and to charge the act of waiting with the current of anticipation , to check and double-check , so that when the waiting was over everything would go like clockwork . |
| 12 | After Hackman 's departure , Dustin felt even more insecure , remembering that he had himself been fired a few times for not satisfying the director . |
| 13 | He had himself studied nature printing in Vienna and was intent on proving that Austria had no claim to exclusive rights . |
| 14 | We do not know , therefore , whether he had himself been repelled by an arid scholastic theology that so frequently reduced ‘ God ’ to an idea that our limited minds could grasp . |
| 15 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 16 | He wanted the job of national regional manager — in charge of the complex network of local committees which he had himself established — and was distraught when Walsh and Hayling offered him only the assistant 's job . |
| 17 | He had himself — however ambiguously — received investiture with his archbishopric from the king , and he had certainly consecrated bishops who had been thus invested . |
| 18 | There was only one narrow channel in which these two rival concepts of liberty could be reconciled : the two papal decrees about homage and investitures , which he had himself heard , required his own complete obedience . |
| 19 | Mack Sennett had come from a New England working-class background and he had himself worked as a plumber 's mate . |
| 20 | Using black ink and cartridge paper he began to copy out a poem he had himself written , in a beautiful italic hand . |
| 21 | Dixon had strongly recommended Thackeray , and had concluded his letter by expressing the hope that his Lordship had not ( as he had himself had been in danger of doing ) suffered in the recent inclement season by the want of fuel . |
| 22 | Nor did it help Ford that many of his junior officers and a good third of his rankers had seen far more fighting then he had himself . |
| 23 | But as he aged , the curia showed itself once again to be more in control than the pope , the very curia which he had himself attempted , if with all possible politeness , to reform . |
| 24 | This ‘ outward-sainted deputy ’ , as Isabella calls him ( in words that recall Christ 's ‘ whited sepulchres ’ ) , who imagines that he has enjoyed the sister and killed the brother — thus breaking even the corrupt contract he had himself proposed — listens with composure to Isabella 's accusation that he is ‘ a murderer , … an adulterous thief , /An hypocrite , a virgin-violator ’ ( V.i.39ff ) . |
| 25 | Lear is to be blamed for believing Goneril and Regan , yet since they were merely flattering his debased scale of values , in a test which he had himself devised , it is not surprising that he did so . |
| 26 | Oliver had to be seen to approve of the wine he had himself chosen . |
| 27 | He had himself declared shogun in 1603 . |
| 28 | It was made by T. H. Huxley who , for all his anticlericalism , nevertheless acknowledged that there were limits to the conflict he had himself been stirring . |
| 29 | Irwin , one of his closest political friends and the Viceroy whom he had himself appointed , declared in October 1929 in favour of Dominion status as the ultimate goal . |
| 30 | His connection with the School went back even further , for he had himself been a pupil , first entering in 1870 when Hamilton was Headmaster . |