Example sentences of "he had [verb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 2 | He wished that one of the journalists who 'd interviewed him had expressed the substance of his life and work in such up-market , romantic terms . |
| 3 | She was herself the daughter of a rabbi , whose father and grandfather before him had upheld the light of Jewish learning in their part of Poland . |
| 4 | This man , he was a criminal , he was one of the worst , he had broken the laws of the land and he was being crucified for that reason but the measure of his sin , the gravity of his sin , did not alter his chance of sa being saved . |
| 5 | On his return he was taken to the sleeping cell and , following the usual routine , was locked in , but on the next day the cell was empty ; he had broken the stone to which the iron grid was fixed . |
| 6 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 7 | He lost the line again and , though he tried to disguise the lapse with a dramatic move , he feared he had broken the tension of the scene . |
| 8 | He had already drafted two acts at the beginning of the previous year , and even before he had been taken ill this autumn he had begun the work of revising them . |
| 9 | He had to set the argument for delay against others which weighed in favour of publication . |
| 10 | Shaikh Abdellatif al-Mahmoud , a professor of Islamic Studies at Bahrein University , was detained on Dec. 14 on his return from a seminar in Kuwait in which he had criticized the systems of government in the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council . |
| 11 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 12 | He had criticized the role of the local Mafia-style organization , the Camorra , in providing medical and other supplies to the local health services . |
| 13 | On 2nd July he had criticized the organization of the competition and the judges ' decision to award only one prize to each competitor . |
| 14 | Even Laurie Mains , the All Black selector whose face rather appears like a grave image when he is interviewed on television , managed a quiet smile after he had superintended the selection of the 30 All Blacks who are touring Australia at the moment and will later play one cataclysmic test against South Africa . |
| 15 | Although his crime had been extremely callous — after killing the boys he had consumed the remains of their half-eaten lunch — opponents of the death sentence had appealed for clemency on the grounds that Harris was mentally unfit for execution , having suffered from foetal-alcohol syndrome and extensive childhood abuse . |
| 16 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 17 | " for these ¾ of a year no past he had taught the scholars of the school to the content of the inhabitants , who have sent their approbation and who desire him to be established therein . " |
| 18 | Yesterday he had taught the class about the wonders of John Dory . |
| 19 | He had to hold the Control at all costs and discourage the enemy from any further attempt to rush his position . |
| 20 | The court was told that he had killed the girl after taking part in sex play with her and then discovering that she was under age . |
| 21 | To Robert , son of Hugh earl of Chester , he had given the abbey of Bury St Edmunds ; and to Richard , son of Richard of Clare , the abbey of Ely . |
| 22 | He asked me if I could arrange for somebody thoroughly trustworthy to visit the premises , telling me that he had given the key to a neighbour . |
| 23 | A hundred years ago , he had saved the life of the Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim ; a century later , Karelius reflected , an infinitely less important Englishman had again owed his life , besides that of the woman he loved , to one of the Hapsburgs ' men . |
| 24 | He must have felt sorry he had saved the life of his enemy 's son . |
| 25 | He was a favourite in the hospital ; much respected and universally liked , and he had saved the lives of many children . |
| 26 | In our bed-sitter we used to talk about my cases , the funny things that happened on my rounds , but now , I thought helplessly , there was n't much point in telling her that AC2 Phillips was on jankers again , that vector triangles were the very devil , that Don McGregor thought he had discovered the secret of Sergeant Hynd 's phenomenally shiny boots . |
| 27 | ‘ And one of our greatest scientists , Rassilon , announced that he had discovered the principles of time travel . |
| 28 | Patrick saw something settle down behind his mother 's eyes , something like satisfaction , and the anger that had burned within him since he had discovered the identity of Joseph Hyde 's attackers , turned cold and brittle . |
| 29 | Before long , through unobtrusive questioning , he had discovered the root of the boy 's fear — simply that he did not know what was going to be done to him . |
| 30 | First he had to sustain the shock of getting up at eight am , then he had to wash and transform his carefully arranged untidy hair into real tidiness , for on this day , the bucket hat was taboo . |