Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] a [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd lost a cousin and some good friends in these reprisals . |
| 2 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 3 | Cut leg cos he 'd kicked a car and his leg was all bleeding so he had |
| 4 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |
| 5 | Did Harry tell you he 'd bought a stallion and four mares of his own ? |
| 6 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 7 | And er the prize was a erm a trip into the with a teacher , on his motorbike and sidecar , he 'd got a motorbike and sidecar . |
| 8 | that he 'd got a form and he was fetching it back in this afternoon and they was handing it over this afternoon . |
| 9 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 10 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 11 | He had met a jewel and he snapped her up . |
| 12 | reported that he had attended a meeting and emphasised that the Institute did not wish to opt out . |
| 13 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 14 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 15 | He had wanted a son and had made her suffer for it . |
| 16 | ‘ He had made a deadlock and called it peace ’ . |
| 17 | He had made a cigarette and now he lit it , looking at Braden as he blew the smoke up in the air . |
| 18 | That is a gift with regard to which he had reserved a benefit and that gift ( the full value of the house ) will come into charge to inheritance tax on his death . |
| 19 | Shut up in her garage , his work approved of and praised by her , comforted by Captain Dawson 's and her advice , which had in all respects proved reliable , he had felt a safety and confidence unknown to him before . |
| 20 | Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here . |
| 21 | Within a further month he had suffered a second and fatal one . |
| 22 | He had become a legend and he ensured he got the kind of treatment only a legend deserved . |
| 23 | I remember one time I reported that he had developed a cough and back came a directive that we should try to make an audio recording of it . |
| 24 | He had scored a point and she knew he knew it . |
| 25 | But by the time I had got it out of the packet and placed it between my lips , he had lighted a cerillo and was holding it out to me in cupped hands , smiling above the soft yellow flame whose elvish reflection danced in his blue eyes . |
| 26 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 27 | From the wall above the fireplace he had taken a gun and shot Troy , who now lay very still . |
| 28 | And he had found a tumbler and another bottle of Famous Grouse from which he 'd taken , at most , two tots . |
| 29 | Valeri said he had found a tent and various items on the ridge , which they were attempting , so I made a list of them and he drew a sketch map of the location where the tent had been found . |
| 30 | He had brought a camera and he took photos of everything possible ; the seats , the food , ourselves . |