Example sentences of "he had [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 2 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
| 3 | In the early hours a Supreme Soviet deputy , Viktor Aivanzian , was shot dead at the headquarters of the Armenian National Army ( ANA — the largest militia group , claiming 160,000 members ) , where he had gone with a contingent from the Armenian Pan-National Movement ( to which the ANA was refusing to subordinate itself ) to discuss a shooting incident of the night before . |
| 4 | On the facts , the defendant was found not liable , as he had conformed with a practice which was approved by a responsible body of medical opinion . |
| 5 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 6 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 7 | Greg thought back on the Hilda he had known with a surge of affection : he could almost see her , chuckling over the typewriter as she composed the letter . |
| 8 | His name was Sir Humphrey Agnew , and he had consorted with a witch hereabouts . |
| 9 | That matter was cured , and had ceased to trouble him ; he had lain with a virgin . |
| 10 | What little hair he had shone with a silver sheen in the lamplight and she could see in the crumpled , brick-red face , the likeness of Stephen . |
| 11 | ‘ Even if they are n't for my eyes , ’ he had added with a twinkle . |
| 12 | He had talked with a plastic young couple in the Reservation Diner , listened to them enthusing about their new-found life and the dictates of their faith , but had seen the deadness in their hearts . |