Example sentences of "he had [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he had worn that hard hat , since even before he left the home . |
| 2 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 3 | This was because by then he had written The Origin where he had argued that primitive society was classless , on the evidence he had obtained from Morgan . |
| 4 | Already , in 1835 , he had concluded that several species of large mammals , formerly flourishing on the eastern plains of South America , had later become extinct while no change in conditions physical or ecological had occurred . |
| 5 | He had to say that any effect produced by a talisman around the neck was to be ascribed to the devil , whereas effects due to Christian amulets came from God 's goodness . |
| 6 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 7 | He had said that French law moved slowly ; she was about to make this into a record case . |
| 8 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 9 | Kryuchkov affirmed the high priority being given by the KGB to combating black-marketeering and organized crime , but not before he had alleged that certain forces were engaged in " economic sabotage " for political ends and were in league with the criminal underworld . |
| 10 | In his first Annual Report seven years earlier , he had mentioned that 16 boys had gained Higher School Certificates ; this year the number was 41 ; and the following year no fewer than 18 Old Stopfordians obtained degrees at Cambridge alone . |
| 11 | Indeed in April he had proved that such reading was an art : the Sitwells had organized an evening for the Free French in the Aeolian Hall , and in front of the Queen he gave a memorable and dramatic performance of " What the Thunder Said " . |
| 12 | On Jan. 16 , Yeltsin reported to the Supreme Soviet that on his recent tour of the country to find out the effects of price liberalization he had found that local officials were not implementing government measures for social protection and that producers ' profit margins were too high . |
| 13 | In the conclusion to The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism , he had suggested that some forms of " debility , ill health and anaemia may produce an efflux of poetry " . |
| 14 | She wondered if he remembered that time he had hummed that same song on the snow-covered terrace in Rocamar — it seemed so long ago now . |
| 15 | Somehow he had captured that foreign poise , for when he did fire his weapon … |
| 16 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 17 | I once heard a very distinguished palaeontologist argue that the base of the Devonian was obviously at one particular level because he had shown that one species of trilobite changed at that horizon into another . |