Example sentences of "but he had [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had stipulated a single girl , and she 'd assumed he would n't want children . |
| 2 | But he had lit a good coal fire in his bar . |
| 3 | He may have been off colour in the World Cup , but he had set a fine example to others . |
| 4 | He had kept his youth and beauty , but he had paid a terrible price for it . |
| 5 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 6 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |