Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |
| 4 | Clinton received another boost when , on July 8 , he was publicly endorsed by Paul Tsongas whom he had defeated in the primary contests . |
| 5 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since sobering up after Christmas he had degenerated into a deep depression . |
| 8 | A fervent supporter of Home Rule , he had converted to the Roman Catholic faith . |
| 9 | A refutation of the aspersions he had cast on the personal conduct of the separatists , it concluded with an appeal to her antagonist to ‘ receive admonition , though it be from a woman ’ . |
| 10 | On March 26 Noubir Amaoui , secretary-general of the Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CDT ) — a trade union grouping close to the opposition Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( USFP ) — was arrested at the CDT offices in Casablanca in connection with an interview he had given to the Spanish newspaper El País on March 11 . |
| 11 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 12 | The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties . |
| 13 | A copy of a paper he had given to the British Association on ‘ The car of the future ’ led to his being summoned to Detroit , and to a commission to design and build it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had shrugged off the personal tone of their conversation now with an impatient glance at his watch . |
| 16 | Only one Valence had returned , to die slowly of poisons he had absorbed during the long march . |
| 17 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 18 | The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines . |
| 19 | In March 1985 , he came into conflict with the Lord Chancellor over an article he had written for the Daily Telegraph on Government pressure on the judiciary to shorten sentences and on the inadequacies of the prison system . |
| 20 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 21 | Flipping back through the pile of loose pages again , he looked for the words he had written about the dark-haired princess who had so generously , so openly acknowledged his presence , the girl to whom ( surely ) he would have been able to tell The Truth . |
| 22 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had retired from the Royal Navy in April 1955 at the age of 46 , but had maintained informal contacts with the intelligence fraternity . |
| 25 | He had hoped for a critical reexamination of the field . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Having secured the tables and the glasses , he had peered at the dark discoloured oil of an elderly cleric in a shovel hat and opined that this was the work of ‘ our local genius ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |