Example sentences of "he had [verb] a [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His successful bid was for £190,000 although he had made a higher prior offer which had been turned down . |
| 2 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 3 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 4 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 5 | Jones , who started his professional career at Wimbledon before moving on to Leeds , Sheffield United and then Chelsea , said he had returned a better player . |