Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had narrowly beaten the Nigerian novelist , Chinua Achebe in May 1989 at the historic congress in Maastrich when the Soviet Union rejoined the writers ' international organization after opposing PEN for nearly seventy years , and the way was opened for the Czechs and Slovaks to rejoin . |
| 2 | He had strongly opposed the attempted coup in August [ see p. 38370 ] . |
| 3 | However , he did n't have time now for self-reproach , nor to wonder why Isabel 's seeming betrayal had cut so deeply that he had instantly thought the worst of her , had immediately accepted Matilda 's word though he 'd known how vindictive and spiteful the woman could be . |
| 4 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 5 | He had even lent the other woman his wife 's blue ball gown . |
| 6 | He had also opposed the complete privatization of state industries and instead proposed temporary protection for industry to allow for a process of revitalization , through exports and improvements in agriculture ( especially increased foreign aid for crop substitution programmes to replace cocaine-producing coca plants ) , mining and fishing . |
| 7 | He had also converted the poor heathland soil of the area into most fruitful land , a point stressed by the observant Kalm . |
| 8 | He had also to tackle the technical problems of bringing two curriculum systems into one entity . |
| 9 | But like the risen Christ , he had also to prepare the faithful for his disappearance from the world . |
| 10 | A non-party technocrat , he had also pursued the tight monetary policy demanded by international financial institutions but criticized by government officials , including his successor . |
| 11 | Giving government corruption and the violation of human rights as reasons for his decision , Njoroge said that he had also left the ruling Kenya African National Union ( KANU ) and was joining the opposition Forum for the Restoration of Democracy ( FORD ) . |
| 12 | He had also walked the whole way in a pair of ex-NATO boots , high-laced stiff things that could reduce an SAS regular into a hobbling wreck in five minutes . |
| 13 | On the contrary , Aubrey 's instant approval of his choice of a wife had added to his own conviction that he had finally made the right decision for his future happiness . |
| 14 | He had just heard the full story from Nigel Cramer in his office atop the Home Office building . |
| 15 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 16 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 17 | He had just turned the first furrow when a tiger walked up and said : " Peace be with you , friend . |
| 18 | He had just persuaded the Operative Builders Union to restructure itself as the Grand National Guild of Builders . |
| 19 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 20 | He had just won the competitive Cambridgeshire Handicap for the second time in three years . |
| 21 | Backstage they were all screaming at Gesner ; Stefan — ‘ You do that again and I 'll bring the curtain down ’ — Alfred , Freddi , Ingrid , Rudi , everyone was shaken , aware that he had nearly wrecked the entire production , and afraid that he still might . |
| 22 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 23 | Charles realised that he had previously underestimated the young producer 's sensitivity . |
| 24 | He had already discovered the therapeutic power of lachesis , the deadly poison of the Surukuku or Bushmaster snake of the Amazon forests , and his Guiding Symptoms , written in 1879 , is still in use today . |
| 25 | He had already crossed the whole length Of the hall and was pressed close to two rabbits , a buck and doe , each of whom was fully as large as Cowslip . |
| 26 | Following Howe 's personal statement on Nov. 13 , Heseltine on the following day abandoned his earlier position that he would not stand against Thatcher , claiming that he was best placed to win back former Conservative voters , that he had the better prospect of leading the Conservative Party to a fourth successive general election victory and so of preventing " the ultimate catastrophe of a Labour victory in a general election " , and that he had already received the committed support of 100 MPs . |
| 27 | By the time Edward III finally divested himself of the Templar lands , in 1338 , he had already resumed the alien priories for the duration of the war and was thus compensated for any losses resulting . |
| 28 | It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others . |
| 29 | He had already witnessed the incredible speed of his lethal opponent , and also of his fellow oriental whom he had shot and killed in the Control Room . |
| 30 | As the prayer went on he showed he had already mastered the priestly mumble . |