Example sentences of "he had [verb] a [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowler , who arrived a few minutes later , was middle-aged ; he had stayed a detective constable ostensibly because he could not pass the examination for sergeant , but his colleagues claimed that he deliberately avoided promotion . |
| 2 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 3 | After leaving the British Army Medical Services , frustrated by the opposition of professional soldiers , he had created a research laboratory and clinic at St. Mary 's Hospital where his theories were developed and his own authority was not to be questioned . |
| 4 | Occasionally , Mr Landor would accuse her of stealing from him when he had mislaid a silver spoon or could not find a precious paperknife , but she had always treated these accusations with the contempt they deserved . |
| 5 | Lt.-Col. Désiré " Desi " Bouterse on Nov. 20 resigned as C.-in-C. of the Army , Early reports suggested that he had opposed a government decision to commemorate the deaths of 15 people murdered by the army in December 1982 [ see pp. 31950-51 ] . |
| 6 | Wright 's face-saving equaliser came five minutes from time — after he had endured a nightmare display . |
| 7 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 8 | He had seen a sheepdog trial in Cumbria : amazing creatures . |
| 9 | But the body of Mrs Wilks was not found until two days later , at the bottom of a motorway embankment two-and-a-half miles away , when a motorist took police to a spot where he had seen a silver Renault 25 parked . |
| 10 | Having reportedly failed in attempts to obtain political asylum in the USA and UK , he had accepted a teaching post at a nuclear institute in Libya . |
| 11 | Clearly feeling he had played a master card , the traveller in jelly folded his napkin with care , pushed back his chair with a tooth-aching shriek , and left ; head down , Adam 's apple at rest . |
| 12 | I do n't remember what I recited , but I do remember being acutely embarrassed on another occasion when people were telling anecdotes , and I recounted one about a soldier being saved from a court martial because he had heard a clock strike thirteen at midnight , and this fact had saved him from being found guilty of sleeping on duty . |
| 13 | A politician who could offer a friend 's relative one of the better appointments could consider that he had rendered a signal service , which he was rarely slow to point out . |
| 14 | He said Thompson had been involved in a traffic accident in which he had suffered a head injury and been concussed for a short time . |
| 15 | Rejecting medical evidence that he had suffered a heart attack brought on by stress and aggravated by a syphilitic condition , the Nazis used the funeral to turn the dead man into a Nazi martyr . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had become a stage manager and officer of the Minnehaha Minstrels . |
| 19 | Rush 's club landmark came just a week after he had reached a scoring milestone for his country . |
| 20 | His use of the title magister indicates that he had received a university education , presumably at Oxford . |
| 21 | However , he made inquiries and was told by his bank that he was not eligible for such a loan because in the past he had received a Government grant . |
| 22 | So , it was well-received when , at our last club meeting our chairman Ray Hammond informed us that he had received a telephone call from an archaeological unit director . |
| 23 | Jacques Glassmann said he had received a phone call from a Marseille official and a player before the game , which Valenciennes lost 1–0 . |
| 24 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 25 | At the court of Louis VII , there was Mainier , a lawyer , whose name was prefaced by the title magister , meaning that he had received a licentia docendi , a licence to teach . |
| 26 | Er that he had received a prison sentence er for in fact being in possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life . |
| 27 | He had noticed a telephone kiosk a quarter of a mile back . |
| 28 | He had prepared a pasta salad which he served with wholemeal bread and fruit juice . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Perhaps conscious that he had gained a megaphone reputation , Meacher had settled down to his own social security review . |