Example sentences of "he had [be] [adj] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year or so later I chanced to meet him and he acknowledged that this was just criticism , but that he had been obliged to insert these names so that his book would look like a truly up-to-date , intouch work of scholarship . |
| 2 | When he had first arrived at the then strange , adult world of Carewscourt , he had been delighted to find another boy of his own age living on the estate . |
| 3 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 4 | Eliot had a bad attack of bronchitis in June , which forced him to stay in bed for a week , but in July his sister , Marian , and a niece arrived from America and he went with them to Suffolk for ten days — the first holiday he had been able to take all year . |
| 5 | He had been able to charm more than a few elderly ladies in his time . |
| 6 | Notable performances here came from 10 year old Ben Bransby , who finished seventh in the men 's event , Emma Williams , who dominated the women 's event , and eight year old Adam Dewhurst , who would have placed higher than his tenth if he had been able to reach all the holds ! |
| 7 | He was glad , at any rate , that he had been able to arrange these weeks at ‘ La Felicità ’ , a summer which they would always remember . |
| 8 | If he had been able to ride one of those he would have thought he was a millionaire . |
| 9 | If he had been able to understand that , he might at least have been able to formulate a coherent apology . |
| 10 | I had kept him waiting for over an hour , though he was n't too annoyed as he had been able to retrieve three brand new titanium ice screws and a rope , left , we presumed , after an incident the night before when we had a helicopter hovering above the face . |
| 11 | He told the abbot of Fécamp that he had heard that there was a letter of Pope Eugenius ( obviously a corruption of Hyginus ) which had settled the question , but he had been unable to get any information about this alleged source . |
| 12 | Harriet was also , he had been surprised to learn this time from Laura , the author of a saga entitled Briony Rides at the Horse of the Year Show . |