Example sentences of "he had [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 2 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 3 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 4 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 5 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 6 | A man of various talents , he had run a ramshackle ship-chandlers establishment at Cyclops Wharf on the West Ferry Road . |
| 7 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 8 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 9 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 10 | Mark , whom I have already quoted in my discussion of the lab work , was a final-year student at A who , although he had obtained A level grades of AAAB , eventually failed his degree . |
| 11 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists . |
| 12 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 13 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 14 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 15 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |
| 16 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 17 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 18 | On the other hand , Lindsey found herself thinking , if Niall smiled at her the way he had smiled a few minutes ago , the dear lady probably would n't even need an anaesthetic ! |
| 19 | It was a book he had read a dozen times in his life ; each time with greater understanding and a growing satisfaction . |
| 20 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |