Example sentences of "he had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had begun an impressive defence of the title he took in Rabat last year with a hat-trick of birdies . |
| 5 | In March 1178 he had renewed an old alliance with Castile — an aggressive alliance directed against the little mountain kingdom of Navarre . |
| 6 | He had intended a painless death ; not being burned alive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 13 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Sharpe remembered the familiar skill with which he had killed the French Lieutenant in this very rye field . |
| 17 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 22 | Each time he had given a little shrug , as though to say , ‘ We 'll see ’ , and left it at that . |
| 23 | She had talked about thresholds and he had given an authoritative paper on ‘ The Potent Castrato : the phallogocentric structuration of Balzac 's hermaphrodite hero/ines ’ . |
| 24 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 25 | He had to do the right thing . |
| 26 | Still , he had to do the honourable thing … . |
| 27 | In 1810 , the Russian industrialist Jacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands , looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new land-mass . |
| 28 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |