Example sentences of "that he had [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opponents spread rumours ; gossips passed them on — that Arthur had misappropriated funds , that he had wrecked the church car ; that he had insulted a senior white church lady , and so on . |
| 2 | But before that he had run a real stinker in the Stewards ' Cup . |
| 3 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 4 | Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , announced yesterday that he had accepted a statutory undertaking from the SMMB to that effect . |
| 5 | All the evidence seems to indicate that he had become a half-hearted Anglican — perhaps that was a safer way , after all , of establishing yourself as a respectable tradesman than anything which smacked in any way of revolt or radicalism ? |
| 6 | In one of his letters to Salt Gandhi wrote that he had become a confirmed vegetarian after reading Salt 's essays published under the title The Logic of Vegetarianism ( 1897 ) . |
| 7 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 8 | At first he thought that he had discovered a new particle , but then an astrophysicist friend of one of Alvarez 's colleagues recognised that it had the characteristics of proton-deuteron fusion — pd fusion-catalysed by a muon . |
| 9 | Hofmann realized that he had discovered a new and versatile chemical reaction which could provide a route to a wide range of new compounds . |
| 10 | He then complemented these observations by giving the appropriate remedy to patients who displayed similar symptoms and signs , and found that he had discovered a therapeutic tool eminently superior to any in use at that time . |
| 11 | After studying large numbers of systems of kinship terms and placing them in an evolutionary sequence , partly in terms of their characteristics , partly in terms of the technological level reached by the societies from which they originated , Morgan felt confident that he had discovered a governing tendency in the history of human marriage : as social evolution progressed , the number of legitimate sexual partners a man or a woman could have diminished progressively , finally producing monogamy — the permanent union of one man and one woman . |
| 12 | At the beginning of that month , Phar-Mor 's founder and chairman , David Shapira , announced that he had discovered a massive fraud in his company . |
| 13 | Even the previous November there had been isolated rumours that he had suffered a nervous breakdown . |
| 14 | Pehr Kalm had been a student of Linnaeus , to whom he wrote in March 1747 saying that he had collected a great many seeds from the Essex garden of Richard Warner , a special friend of Miller , who promised an introduction and that he intended ‘ taking up my quarters a little way from Chelsea garden to be always with him ’ . |
| 15 | When he stood back , he could see that he had created a superb landscape with figures . |
| 16 | Ingard sensed that he had struck a wrong note . |
| 17 | He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw . |
| 18 | Although it had been widely reported that he had made a full confession during pre-trial questioning , in court Watanabe maintained that " there is no truth " in the reports that he had paid politicians . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State for Health and Social Welfare , Rubén Cardozo , resigned on Feb. 8 following the disclosure that he had made a secret payment of 40,000 money vouchers ( bonos solidarios ) to a Peronist congressional deputy , Dante Camaño . |
| 20 | What pleased him , he told me , was that he had made a slow but gradual improvement in his times over the three-day session and Joe Millar , his backer , was also delighted at the methodical , no-nonsense way in which Jeremy was approaching any problem he encountered . |
| 21 | Comedian Michael Bentine recounted that he had asked a sensitive why some parts of the chalk countryside around Folkestone , where he lived , gave him a great feeling of security and peace while others made him feel uncomfortable and nervous . |
| 22 | The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry . |
| 23 | One Borstal inmate , Rodney Ackland , was expelled from the company when it was discovered that he had written a highbrow play while employed as a BIP screenwriter . |
| 24 | He would go to see Joseph Fouché personally , and explain the position to him : that he had uncovered a massive international conspiracy of Jews who planned to take over the whole of Europe . |
| 25 | Her eyes opened and she saw that he had tugged a long strand of hair free and was playing it between his fingers . |
| 26 | On his return Gujral made a statement to the Lok Sabha in which he indicated that he had rejected a Pakistani proposal for the UN to assume an observer role , and appeared to impose on Pakistan the responsibility for easing relations . |
| 27 | Henry had tried to tempt him into making a racist statement by announcing that he had seen a black person outside the window two weeks ago , but all the constable had said was ‘ You do n't see many coloureds in this part of Wimbledon . ’ |
| 28 | The young policeman from Bromley reported that he had seen a young couple whose description matched the wanted pair and they had gone towards the pier . |
| 29 | Ahmed had come from that dizzy town to boast that he had seen a bad strange girl leaving Marie Claire 's house and had shouted and thrown stones at her . |
| 30 | Despite further negative publicity while in prison Barry had emerged from his period of incarceration claiming that he had undergone a religious rebirth . |