Example sentences of "his [noun] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frequently , when Eddie Stratton had flown in the past , his heart had missed a beat or two whenever he heard the ‘ ding-dong ’ tones on the aircraft intercom . |
| 2 | On his way down to take part in an official inspection , Wycliffe had monitored reports on his car radio and so arrived at the scene of crime before his headquarters had got a team together . |
| 3 | As Hunter says , ‘ his mind had received a shock from which it never fully recovered ’ . |
| 4 | His lips had shown a passion and need that had equalled her own but he had not pressed it any further . |
| 5 | He liked women , and before his marriage had enjoyed a succession of casual , satisfactory and uncommitted affairs . |
| 6 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 7 | Ludens knew that Marcus had spent part of his childhood in London but could elicit no information about this interesting period , except that his parents had had a flat in Knightsbridge . |
| 8 | His parents had left a village in the mountains near the Albanian border just after the Civil War . |
| 9 | And he admitted this was n't the first time his feet had come a cropper . |
| 10 | At an early stage the archbishop and ten of his suffragans had signed a declaration that they intended no prejudice to the king by their support for the reforms , and the Ordainers themselves swore to work for the benefit of church , king and people . |
| 11 | He was portrayed as the ‘ thinking ’ bookseller and by the 1670s his shop had become a place where London 's intellectual élite could expect to meet , gossip , and scheme . |
| 12 | Athelstan remembered Foreman 's words — how the lady who had visited his shop had bought a poison which could not be traced or smelt yet would stop the heart . |
| 13 | One young man of John 's age wrote to say that the pointlessness of his captivity had struck a chord with him . |
| 14 | The new rector appointed in his place had leased a house to the plaintiff Philips , who had been evicted by Bury . |
| 15 | Yesterday , Dr Colin Campbell , of Horticulture Research International 's experimental station at East Malling , Kent , said his team had found a way of predicting the migration patterns of harmful aphids and could lay on ambushes to kill them when they arrived . |
| 16 | Only last week one of the ‘ free ’ newspapers which regularly infested his hallway had reported a spate of knife attacks by gangs who ‘ worked ’ the lines , preying on travellers late at night and early in the morning , robbing them of their valuables and occasionally , to relieve the monotony , stabbing them to death . |
| 17 | At least one of his grandparents had made a career on the frontier ; and in The Cantos this forebear , Thaddeus Coleman Pound , makes several entries , always with an encouraging flourish on the drums . |
| 18 | Wherever Jews were to be found — whether in the Holy Land or in the far-flung Diaspora — his name had become a household word as one of the select band of zealots whose spirit had never relinquished the hope of one day setting up a Jewish state in Palestine . |
| 19 | Julius was about to learn that his wife had developed a mind and a will of her own . |
| 20 | His departure was recognition that his unpopularity had become a liability for the Conservatives in an election year . |
| 21 | The sentries had been primed to admit him without challenge , Alexei noted , and as soon as his escort had dismounted a trooper wearing the gorget of a provost came out of the gatehouse and led them away towards the stables . |
| 22 | In 1913 a Mr R. Lydekker , Fellow of the Royal Society , claimed in The Times that he and his gardener had heard a cuckoo on February 6 in Hertfordshire : ‘ There is not the slightest doubt . ’ |
| 23 | Instead of being educated at Christ 's Hospital in London , where his father had secured a nomination for him , he was admitted to the Asylum for deaf and dumb children in the Old Kent Road , London . |
| 24 | But he was also at home in Nepal , where he and his father had built a mountain lodge . |
| 25 | His heir was fined £20,000 , even though his father had obtained a pardon from James I. The Earl of Westmorland was fined £19,000 , and Sir Christopher Hatton £12,000 ; Sir Giles Mompesson was adjudged to pay a total of £3,300 for felling timber even though he produced an Exchequer warrant . |
| 26 | His father had bought a place in Kildare before the Great War . |
| 27 | His father had installed a Spiel petroleum engine to drive some of the machinery in his workshops , and Herbert was inspired to work on the problem of developing an internal-combustion engine that would run on heavier ( and safer ) grades of fuel oil . |
| 28 | The war ended in 1813 and as his father-in-law had died a year earlier , William was no longer required to manage the family affairs . |
| 29 | De Gaulle and his disciples had had a view on Europe since the 1940s . |
| 30 | Before long , his ships had gained a reputation for quality and speed and his business prospered . |