Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 2 | He had grown quite a bit , both upwards and outwards and , as I shook hands with him , I reflected that it would not be long before he won a professional tournament . |
| 3 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 4 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 5 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 6 | Before their marriage he had made quite a hobby of photography . |
| 7 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 8 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 9 | However , since he had served nearly a year in prison whilst awaiting trial he was released on completion of the trial , the sentence being reduced for good conduct . |
| 10 | ‘ Fair enough , ’ Dr Neil replied , and by the careful way he spoke he had drunk quite a lot of the whisky from the half-empty bottle . |
| 11 | And it seemed to her that for a moment his eyes ensnared her , as though he had reached out a hand and taken hold of her . |
| 12 | He had rigged up a primus stove , and a coffee-pot was already in position . |
| 13 | He had rigged up a sort of tent , I saw now , draping his jacket over the open door , a shirt over her legs . |
| 14 | He had built up a reputation as an idle scamp but now he was transformed into a model of industry , delivering papers in the mornings , digging people 's gardens , helping to drive the beasts at the auction mart . |
| 15 | He had had barely a glimpse of what the Ping Tiao hierarchy were up to for almost a week now . |
| 16 | The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone . |
| 17 | My boss knew he had taken on a lesbian when I was appointed . |
| 18 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 19 | He had taken up a woman 's role , and in the most feminine way taken up the nursing of Sien when his own mental and physical health were at a low ebb . |
| 20 | It was at once apparent to Joan that , whatever changes of circumstance had taken place , he had changed not a jot . |
| 21 | He was very small , sandy-haired , sharp-featured and with his sense of smell so well developed that it was rumoured that he had sniffed out a suicide in Epping Forest even before the animal predators got to it . |
| 22 | External Affairs Minister Madhavsinh Solanki resigned on March 31 after admitting that he had handed over a note to his Swiss counterpart , René Felber , requesting the Swiss government to slow down its investigations into pay-offs to high-ranking Indian officials allegedly deposited into Swiss bank accounts by the Swedish armaments company AB Bofors [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 23 | In 1985 he had set up a consultancy firm which in the past year had advised the government on privatization . |
| 24 | He had set up a bank account with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington in the name of Momen Garawand and then used cheque books which he saved up to spend almost £6,500 . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , in February 1992 , then UK Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Lilley announced that he had set up a steering group of leading businessmen to consider a prestigious new National Quality Award for the United Kingdom . |
| 26 | Although Maurice was not a Romanist nor an archaeologist — his interest has always been in medieval and later houses — he had set up a training school at Lincoln with Philip Corder as director . |
| 27 | As a result , he had set up a meeting of regional engineers , himself , and the deputy inspector of railways . |
| 28 | I told him how he had put up a man who was interdit de séjour … . |
| 29 | Despite denials from both parties , managing director Garry Hawkes FHCIMA withdrew his nomination for presidency of the HCIMA in order to concentrate on business , and a few months later the story circulating was that he had put together a management buyout package . |
| 30 | He had picked up a fare in the City — an army deserter called Percy Toplis , who asked to be driven to Basingstoke . |