Example sentences of "he had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen Billy enter the dining rooms in front of her as she returned from the park with Rachel , and the sight of him had sent a little shiver through her body . |
| 2 | And although Thornton seemed the obvious choice to the outside world , relationships with him had reached a new low in October 1985 . |
| 3 | She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it . |
| 4 | This new Rose who had descended upon him had joined the gaudy throng , for reasons she would n't divulge , and had lost some of her individuality . |
| 5 | For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war . |
| 6 | Gubbins was educated at Battersea Polytechnic , but was taken away at sixteen when the headmaster told his mother that educating him had proved a hopeless task . |
| 7 | After he had stabbed a lone sergeant to death the callous murderer kept gory souvenirs of his crime in the glove compartment of his car . |
| 8 | There had been the regrettable occasion in the Chamber when he had kissed the Labour Party 's spokesman for the Arts , a Mr Mark Fisher , on his bald pate , an escapade that had attracted what his wife Marjorie had called ‘ bloody bad publicity ’ . |
| 9 | He had broken the fourth wall . |
| 10 | Price , of Zimbabwe , shot a cautious second round 68 and was surprised to hear he had broken the previous record set by Mark O'Meara and Steve Jones in 1987 . |
| 11 | He had begun an impressive defence of the title he took in Rabat last year with a hat-trick of birdies . |
| 12 | By his early twenties , his musical curriculum vitae was already breathtaking , as he had recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Klemperer , the two Brahms showpieces with Barbirolli , and the complete cycle of Mozart concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra . |
| 13 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 14 | In March 1178 he had renewed an old alliance with Castile — an aggressive alliance directed against the little mountain kingdom of Navarre . |
| 15 | He had intended a painless death ; not being burned alive . |
| 16 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 17 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 18 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 19 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 20 | This was true even of the private apartments of the Imperial family , to such an extent that if the Emperor , while working late at night as he often did , wanted a book from his library , he had to take a lighted candle with him . |
| 21 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 22 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 23 | Davidson emphasises above his own role in Provincial 's response a team effort , not only in the sense that he had to delegate a great deal in such a multi-faceted role — although ‘ logically planning goes together with finance and not only did we have the capacity to take on overseas but control of subsidiaries fits too ’ — to his deputies , and , but that the whole company was involved . |
| 24 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 25 | Sharpe remembered the familiar skill with which he had killed the French Lieutenant in this very rye field . |
| 26 | He said a bargain was a bargain ; he had found the treasure , he had risked the Caliph 's wrath , and he had killed the three assassins . |
| 27 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 28 | Codron felt the same way about Ken as Bamber Gascoigne had felt — and knew he had cast the right man in the right sort of roles . |
| 29 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 30 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |