Example sentences of "[that] he had [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 2 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 3 | And then of course , the other characteristics that go with religion , and that he had emphasized in other books on Totem and Taboo , like guilt , the feeling that you ought to obey the moral commands of the parents , because after all the parents were n't just benevolent entities who looked after you and rewarded you and praised you , but they were your judges and censors as well . |
| 4 | He also indicated that he had disagreed with other members of the government on the running of the education department and said that he had been " gradually marginalized within the government " . |
| 5 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 6 | The coroner was told that he had drunk between twelve and sixteen pints of lager . |
| 7 | On Dec. 31 Salim announced that he had met with various Somali representatives in Addis Ababa , Djibouti and Nairobi . |
| 8 | Hariri denied reports that he had met with Lebanese opposition figures in France . |
| 9 | He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one . |
| 10 | As laid down in the will that he had made on 29 April 1696 , revising an earlier one dated 13 July 1685 , in which his wife had been named as his sole heir , Howard 's estates were inherited by his only surviving child , Henry Charles Howard ( born 18 October 1668 ) ; from him they descended to his son , Charles Howard [ q.v. ] , who became tenth Duke of Norfolk in 1777 . |
| 11 | He smiled for a moment thinking it was a joke ( a slash of the knife at this point ) and then the smile turned to disbelief — ‘ he did n't look disabled ’ — finally he felt embarrassment that he had progressed through such sensational thoughts . |
| 12 | Mr. Burt said in evidence that he had relied upon these representations and that he would not have ‘ employed ’ him — the word he used in evidence — had he known that he was not qualified . |
| 13 | On Feb. 23 , 1990 , D. P. Vijandran , the MIC secretary-general , resigned as Deputy Speaker of the federal House of Representatives following allegations in December 1989 that he had appeared in pornographic films . |
| 14 | In the debate itself , some of the behind-the-scenes tensions were reflected by party spokesmen attempting to discredit Mr Benn 's contribution , pointing out that he had served in Labour governments which maintained nuclear weapons . |
| 15 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 16 | Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again . |
| 17 | In 1920 he revived the Headington Quarry side that he had formed in 1910 , some of whom had been killed or wounded in World War I , including his own son William , whose leg had been shattered . |
| 18 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 19 | His neck and shoulders gradually became so stiff that he had to turn in one piece from the waist up . |
| 20 | An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme . |
| 21 | On Feb. 15 the UN mediator , Alvaro De Soto , denied that he had drawn up such a report . |
| 22 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 23 | Anyway , someone pointed out that the face in the mirror was obviously not the face of the woman looking into it , something to do with the angle at which the mirror was held , and what theory they attached to that , whether it had been intended , or a mistake , or even an overpainting at a later date — he did not remember that he had known about that . |
| 24 | She had been like a lazy cat , refusing to wake up properly , a phenomenon that he had known in young girls before . |
| 25 | In so far as Ferdinand had a system it was the restoration of the machinery of government and the society that he had known in 1808 : ministerial despotism superimposed on the old Councils , the very system the Persians professed to abhor . |
| 26 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 27 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 28 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 29 | However suspicious he was , he surely realised that he had agreed to this visit ? |
| 30 | But unofficially the word ran that he had died of plain starvation . |