Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been the regrettable occasion in the Chamber when he had kissed the Labour Party 's spokesman for the Arts , a Mr Mark Fisher , on his bald pate , an escapade that had attracted what his wife Marjorie had called ‘ bloody bad publicity ’ . |
| 2 | He had broken the fourth wall . |
| 3 | Price , of Zimbabwe , shot a cautious second round 68 and was surprised to hear he had broken the previous record set by Mark O'Meara and Steve Jones in 1987 . |
| 4 | By his early twenties , his musical curriculum vitae was already breathtaking , as he had recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Klemperer , the two Brahms showpieces with Barbirolli , and the complete cycle of Mozart concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra . |
| 5 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 6 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 7 | Sharpe remembered the familiar skill with which he had killed the French Lieutenant in this very rye field . |
| 8 | He said a bargain was a bargain ; he had found the treasure , he had risked the Caliph 's wrath , and he had killed the three assassins . |
| 9 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 10 | Codron felt the same way about Ken as Bamber Gascoigne had felt — and knew he had cast the right man in the right sort of roles . |
| 11 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 12 | Gauci had remembered the sale so vividly that , almost ten months later , he had given the Scottish police a probable date for it , 23 November 1988 , and provided a FBI videofit artist with a detailed description of his customer — he believed , a Libyan . |
| 13 | The results were equivocal , but to his surprise he found that when he grafted the tissue to the anterior margin of the limb there was a dramatic change in the development of the limb — a whole new set of digits developed : he had discovered the polarizing region . |
| 14 | Feelings , the Collector now suspected , were just as important as ideas , though young Fleury no longer appeared to think so for he had given up talking of civilization as a " beneficial disease " ; he had discovered the manly pleasures to be found in inventing things , in making things work , in getting results , in cause and effect . |
| 15 | Tony Johnson , the Financial Times head of computers , said he had discovered the electronic intrusion in May 1991 . |
| 16 | He spent most of August in Worcestershire and September at Aix , which he had discovered the previous summer . |
| 17 | His head lifted fractionally , his nostrils flaring , and she knew he had scented the astringent lotion . |
| 18 | She 'd been set up and she had thought Fernando was so desperate to have her back in his life that he had manipulated the whole thing . |
| 19 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 20 | He was happy ; he had lost the familiar feeling of dread and despair . |
| 21 | He had lost the one person who believed in him , the one person whom he could trust with his innermost thoughts . |
| 22 | Grant had time only to register the knowledge that he had lost the unequal contest , and with it his life , before the final hiraken knuckle-blow landed , breaking his nose and cheekbones , and smashing him into bloody oblivion . |
| 23 | He had lost the second war in the Great Battle of the universe and had forfeited his power over humankind for ever . |
| 24 | He had lost the greatest friend he would ever have . |
| 25 | he had lost the two centre top teeth , and with the tip of his tongue he could feel that the two on either side were also loose . |
| 26 | He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle . |
| 27 | He had lost the first action in 1926 , failed on appeal and finally won the action in 1934 . |
| 28 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 29 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 30 | It would be good to make Ken Harris admit that for once he had suspected the wrong man . |