Example sentences of "he had [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to take a number of decisions in the field of immigration and deportation , which infuriated libertarians . |
| 2 | He had given a picture of religion , which represented it as primarily concerned with guilt , with taboos against incest , and as er , representing the origins of civilization in primeval societies like those of the Australian Aborigines , and Freud erm , remarks in the opening pages of Civilization and Discontents that Totem and Taboo was never meant to be a complete theory of religion . |
| 3 | Some time previously , he had discovered a system of cryptography — he called it the ‘ Atbash Cipher ’ — which had been used to conceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean texts . |
| 4 | All around him , backstabbing and financial disaster fomented chaos , inside he had discovered a universe of beauty and order . |
| 5 | He had discovered a method of intercepting springs , and , using stone to seal his drains , he and others like him set about spreading the gospel of effective underdrainage . |
| 6 | He had lost a bit of weight after the race at York but now seemed stronger , harder . |
| 7 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 8 | A little later , Oliver woke up and was very anxious to tell his story , although he had lost a lot of blood and was very weak . |
| 9 | There was massive bruising , and he had lost a lot of blood in the night . |
| 10 | I was told by the retailer that he had lost a number of Emperors due to aggression in the confines of a small tank in his store . |
| 11 | The international deaf community , for whom he had compiled a dictionary of international sign language ( Gestuno ) , was also deeply affected by Hayhurst 's sudden death . |
| 12 | Chamberlain also believed that he had arranged a mini-concordat of his own with Beaverbrook . |
| 13 | Since then he had attended a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party at which he , the Lord Chancellor and the Home Secretary had spoken . |
| 14 | No doubt he had wanted a lot of women . |
| 15 | He was sorry he had made a fool of himself by ringing . |
| 16 | He felt he had made a fool of himself . |
| 17 | But he had made a mess of it . |
| 18 | Once he had made a crown of poppies for her hair and a daisy chain for her neck , and she had danced all the way home , feeling like a princess . |
| 19 | After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other . |
| 20 | For his funeral he had made a list of people he wanted invited ( they did not include any Japanese ) , the lessons he wanted read , the hymns he wanted sung . |
| 21 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 22 | He had made a point of reading some of his articles last night , and the man knew what he was writing about . |
| 23 | The young man who had peered over the rampart to see this extraordinary collection of scarecrows was known to more than one of the garrison of Krishnapur , for he was none other than that Lieutenant Stapleton who had danced so often with Louise in Calcutta the previous cold season and who had been given a lock of blonde curls as a keepsake ; he had made a point of wearing this lock of hair next to the rather wispy blond hair that grew on his own chest . |
| 24 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 25 | He had made a search of the house but eventually had found her body in a garage which was locked from the inside . |
| 26 | For some years he had made a practice of writing to government departments about the grievances of seamen , addressing these also to prominent persons and sending copies to the press . |
| 27 | In 1908 he had made a drawing of a table-turning . |
| 28 | In the early part of his career he had made a number of smaller , better films such as The Stripper ( 1963 ) and The Best Man ( 1964 ) , before embarking on bigger and more portentous projects such as The War Lord ( 1965 ) and The Planet of the Apes ( 1967 ) , both with Charlton Heston baring his teeth and chest ; Patton ( 1969 ) , an ambiguous biopic about a modern war lord ( for which he won Best Director Oscar ) ; and Nicholas and Alexandra ( 1971 ) , a tedious and simplistic Tsar-trek . |
| 29 | From his grandfather he had inherited a love of railways and the School . |
| 30 | He had inherited a view of the cross which saw it as the place where Christ did something which changed God 's mind about human beings . |