Example sentences of "he had [verb] [art] [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 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 3 | John Windle picked out Drew as a man he had seen the worse for drink and in a threatening attitude in Cross Street at 4.20 on 22 June . |
| 4 | He had reached the flatter section of land at the side of the house where vegetables had once grown in neatly fenced patches . |
| 5 | And here , thought Dalgliesh , he had had the larger vestry to himself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The tsar , however , believed he had found a better way to knit his territories together than any conceived by his predecessors . |
| 8 | Wilcox grunted contemptuously , as if he had expected no better . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |