Example sentences of "[vb past] he had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 CW reported he had passed a list of requirements to meet EC Directive on Workstation H & S to IL , but he had not yet had time to discuss eye and eyesight testing requirements with M Prior .
2 Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe .
3 ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim .
4 He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it .
5 Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date .
6 A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective .
7 In a telephone interview with the government-run radio station , Mr Chen Jun claimed he had become a victim of political games between the Chinese and Hong Kong Governments .
8 She was horrified until she guessed he had lit a cigarette .
9 Once again , however , he discovered he had struck a chord with ordinary people , people who had felt they were unfit to pass judgement on modern buildings because they lacked the qualifications .
10 Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race .
11 ‘ But he had started to drink heavily in recent months and Bernard felt he had become a liability .
12 He felt he had made a fool of himself .
13 But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake .
14 At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry .
15 He agreed this name might be in error , but by convoluted etymological detective work he felt he had established a link between the Saxon word for a cleared strip of land and his lines .
16 Peter Rogers knew he had hit a gold mine , even if it did n't always seem to the performers that he was totally on their side .
17 Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive .
18 Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it .
19 He thought he had done a deal at £2.3 million .
20 The tsar thought he had found a model for ameliorating the condition of the peasants which the gentry would accept .
21 And in that instant , he realised he had become a DEEP .
22 She blushed guiltily as she realised he had refused a sweet , opting just for coffee , but then , she doubted that anything could test his willpower and not lose .
23 Clearing his throat noisily , Price perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose and announced he had received a letter from India .
24 It was only later that he realized he had destroyed a Max Ernst .
25 Her mind drifted back to that occasion while Pascoe was talking and she was recalled sharply when she realized he had put a question .
26 The Sheffield Wednesday flyer yesterday learned he had cracked a bone in his ankle when he scored at Highbury on Saturday .
27 Club sources said he had sent a fax to FIFA in Zurich informing them of his move .
28 Mr Runciman said he had prepared a draft statement on the profits warning and the company 's corporate finance advisers , Hoare Govett , were to advise on the wording and timing of the statement .
29 Jacques Glassmann said he had received a phone call from a Marseille official and a player before the game , which Valenciennes lost 1–0 .
30 PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy .
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