Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 2 | After undergoing medical tests in Australia , Lini returned to work on June 14 and , on June 27 , dismissed four ministers who had not acceded to his loyalty pledge . |
| 3 | Such is the case , for instance , in ( 69 ) below , where the phrase the notion that suggests surprise at someone having done such a thing as was done , thereby implying that the speaker would not have thought such audacity possible if the occurrence of the event referred to had not come to his knowledge : ( 69 ) … one of those heroes , the air ace Billy Bishop , was recently the focus of a bitter wrangle between the National Film Board and the Senate . |
| 4 | While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo . |
| 5 | He had finally settled to his fate : socialist entrepreneur of the grand scale . |
| 6 | Barry Glenn , assistant manager at Perry 's Brasserie in Darlington , had just returned to his home in Harris Street on Sunday night when a raider struck . |
| 7 | He had always pretended to his employer that he did n't . |
| 8 | Although the family was now impoverished and the estate sold Lord Dungannon was bringing up his considerable family in a modest villa in Bayswater — the boy had still gone to his father 's school . |
| 9 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 10 | Charlie tried to take in everything at once , but his eyes settled on a coloured picture that had hung above his bed in Whitechapel Road and had once belonged to his mother . |
| 11 | He remembered the many faces of Sylvie , the child-woman with the mischievous glance who had stolen apples in the Paris market , the girl he had obsessively trailed , the passionate creature who had boldly come to his flat and pleasured him to the point of pain , the frightened child who pushed him away and clung to him simultaneously . |
| 12 | His co-pilot , Kamran Irani had n't returned to his home in Ramsden near Witney . |
| 13 | It never occurred to me that he might turn out even worse , a vain , spineless , ignorant lout with no interest in anything but clothes and television and pop music , who would be rotting in gaol at this very minute if his family had n't come to his rescue . |
| 14 | That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army . |
| 15 | The warm night air had quite gone to his head , and had Araminta not been quite so very unattainable , doubtless other parts also would have shared his intoxication . |
| 16 | Mr Smith had firmly kept to his intention of dealing only with the financial side of the business and absolutely refused to participate in the selection of Girls . |
| 17 | Weir had been piling one office upon another , and had recently added to his collection that of sheriff-substitute in the Nether-ward of Lanarkshire , although , as his friend Andrew Gardner urgently pointed out to the duke , this was a precarious place which was held only during the pleasure of the sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire . |
| 18 | In fact , Michael had never talked to his son about politics , labelling him good-naturedly as an idle playboy . |