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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But now he had ignited a fire within her that could never be put out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since then he had attended a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party at which he , the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary had spoken . |
| 13 | But there he had directed a research laboratory with a common discipline . |
| 14 | His school was the County High School at Dagenham and from there he had won a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 15 | He did n't go to Spain , instead he had booked a ticket to London , that was as far as he wanted to go . |
| 16 | Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances . |
| 17 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 18 | Only recently he had seen a photograph of a Rembrandt , one he did n't know . |