Example sentences of "[noun sg] he had [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 2 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 3 | However , observing him in the classroom he had noticed his immature behaviour . |
| 4 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 5 | Not only had David Anthony been her grandfather 's name , but the name he had given his adopted son . |
| 6 | In the last week he had consulted it thirty or forty times : |
| 7 | She felt his arms snake round her waist and before she could gain a purchase on the yielding upholstery he had pulled her close to his side . |
| 8 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 9 | By his next letter he had recovered his good humour and was asking to be forgiven . |
| 10 | Not the way he had loved his gentle Adelaide , to whom he had been devoted , but with a lust which made him ashamed . |
| 11 | During the Occupation he had manipulated his symbolic stature , but in the aftermath of liberation there was a danger of becoming its prisoner . |
| 12 | Shortly before his death he had conveyed his magical paraphernalia ( lead and wax images , crosses and charms ) to Richard Weston , directing them to be buried secretly . |
| 13 | By the time he had completed his forty-second plate he was forced to face up to his inadequacies as a business man . |
| 14 | Ruthie ; it was the first time he had called her that here in Majorca . |
| 15 | For some time he had thought her one of the most beautiful girls he had ever seen . |
| 16 | Up until this time he had considered it wrong to administer the Lord 's Supper to those whose profession of faith was somewhat dubious . |
| 17 | About the time he had taken his reluctant swim . |
| 18 | This was the first time he had shared anything personal with me , and that he could let the mask slip a little was a measure of his growing trust . |
| 19 | BY the time he had finished his latest enterprising but utterly unproductive search for phantoms Brian Smith was already planning the next . |
| 20 | In fact he had barred him some three weeks previously in mid-March . |
| 21 | He might have been a minor orator , not quite in the senate , nor yet on the stage , more likely at the Bar of some prosperous provincial town ; in fact he had made his early and relatively modest pile in some wholesale business . |