Example sentences of "his [noun sg] had [verb] 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 | As Hunter says , ‘ his mind had received a shock from which it never fully recovered ’ . |
| 3 | He liked women , and before his marriage had enjoyed a succession of casual , satisfactory and uncommitted affairs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One young man of John 's age wrote to say that the pointlessness of his captivity had struck a chord with him . |
| 7 | The new rector appointed in his place had leased a house to the plaintiff Philips , who had been evicted by Bury . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Julius was about to learn that his wife had developed a mind and a will of her own . |
| 12 | His departure was recognition that his unpopularity had become a liability for the Conservatives in an election year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But he was also at home in Nepal , where he and his father had built a mountain lodge . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His father had bought a place in Kildare before the Great War . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His voice had hardened a fraction , momentarily out of control , and Sarella thanked her lucky stars for that warning note . |
| 22 | He was unhappy there but , determined not to slip back into the pits where his grandfather had wielded a pick , worked hard and won scholarships both to Jesus College , Oxford , and the University College of Aberystwyth . |
| 23 | His grandfather had received a baronetcy for loyalty to the Crown in the Civil War . |
| 24 | Discounting all the years during which his stepson had sacrificed a life of his own to follow an old man 's dictates , he pressed on to his bed . |
| 25 | Nobody appeared to show the least surprise when Charles appeared in Service Dress after his servant had arranged a room at the farm for the change and a hot water wash after a little light work on the trench system , trenches that bore every resemblance to those he had seen and read about as constructed in the First War . |
| 26 | His mother had remained a Protestant after her marriage . |
| 27 | As a boy , he had been certain that he was adopted , or that his mother had taken a lover . |
| 28 | His father , of Gipton , Leeds , said his son had amassed a fortune . |
| 29 | Kelly 's lawyer then told the judge that his client had written a letter of apology to the Nocks but on his solicitor 's advice it had never been sent . |
| 30 | Keith Rankin , representing Michael Lowther said his client had had a childhood of abuse and was of limited intelligence . |