Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Before their marriage he had made quite a hobby of photography . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | He had had barely a glimpse of what the Ping Tiao hierarchy were up to for almost a week now . |
| 8 | The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone . |
| 9 | 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 . |