Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had grown into a slim blond young man , slightly ashen from his long hospital hours , a little frenzied and erratic in his gestures which spoke of bouts of sleeplessness and an adrenaline-fuelled energy . |
| 2 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 3 | He had boxed during a brief spell in the army , and he enjoyed golfing and playing poker ; he also read thrillers and was a film addict . |
| 4 | Since sobering up after Christmas he had degenerated into a deep depression . |
| 5 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 6 | And he had to put on a brave face as he manned the tombola stall at a primary school Christmas bazaar where his children Adam , seven , and five-year-old Amber were among the revellers . |
| 7 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 8 | Mr Bates , 43 , of Hawkhurst , Kent , had flown to Miami in February last year to recover £500,000 he had lost in a crooked business deal . |
| 9 | He had hoped for a critical reexamination of the field . |
| 10 | He needed to compare his ledger 's statistics with the industry averages/norm , and he had hoped for a concentrated sample from their trade association , but no such luck . |
| 11 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 12 | With great pride he brandished a collection of Russian military insignia and cap badges , which he had swapped with an English-speaking cadet in the Soviet Army marching team . |
| 13 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 14 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 15 | He had emerged as a consistent and capable performer and had acquired a range of skills essential to his later success in politics . |
| 16 | He had called in a local firm of builders to carry out the essential brickwork , plastering and re-tiling on the roof ; after that , he took a hand in the redecoration personally , splashing on new paint and putting up wallpaper . |
| 17 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
| 18 | It was where he spent his last years , here at Gads ' Hill Place , in the house which he had coveted as a poverty-stricken child . |
| 19 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 20 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 21 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 22 | The Attorney General , Eligio Hernández , appealed to the High Court against the search warrant , and said in a statement on Nov. 19 that he had applied for a Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of Judge Marino Barbero 's actions . |
| 23 | Fignon said in a statement that he had asked for a second test at a different laboratory but his request had been turned down . |
| 24 | He had asked for a new security system for Lowermoor but was refused on cost grounds . |
| 25 | He had asked for an urgent meeting with Rakovsky to discuss the report and get instructions . |
| 26 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 27 | He believed there was a future for Swanage and therefore he had striven for a great number of years to improve it — ( laughter ) — but he was very glad that those who came from afar were pleased and satisfied . |
| 28 | He blamed political bias , but when he had stood as a Labour candidate in the 1945 elections in which the socialists swept to post-war victory , Hugo had not won his seat . |
| 29 | Half-way along the twisting alley he had to squeeze past a primitive scaffolding — constructed with wooden posts and three storeys high and heavy beams for planks . |
| 30 | He had to choose between a good life and a bad life , he thought . |