Example sentences of "he had [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surere could not disappear in the way that he had without powerful help . |
| 2 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 3 | He had about thirty pictures to hang , and he had to measure it wall so it was spot on and he want , he wanted them all upstairs , he did , one , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight about twelve just downstairs in the hall way |
| 4 | and he had about four bowlfuls and he was |
| 5 | A sort of thing , before he got to Colchester he did a lot of work in his quarters , he had about four daughters . |
| 6 | oh I , I mean , he sit inside , normally he 'd have the present , he chucked his glasses off , he stuffed all his hankies , he had about ten hankies in his pocket |
| 7 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 8 | Nicholson 's commemoration also rests with the intriguing interactions he had with other chemists , and raises questions on the objectives of chemical research which are still relevant today . |
| 9 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 10 | He said you were n't to let a new dog off the lead until he had for six weeks |
| 11 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 12 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 13 | As for Cranmer , he had for twenty-five years insisted on the duty of the subject , in accordance with Scripture , to obey the powers that be , which were of divine origin . |
| 14 | You know how deeply involved he got with it ; he had on other books . |
| 15 | He might also have said , as he had on countless occasions , that although he had constantly looked to the British for advice , he distrusted them acutely . |
| 16 | He had on ripped jeans , a sweatshirt and an old pair of training shoes . |
| 17 | He claims , with every semblance of sincerity , that whereas he had on previous occasions deliberately sought out these wretched and exploited females , this time he had no thoughts of fornication in his head . |
| 18 | That he had on previous occasions overcome his antipathy to women is suggested by remarks he made to others . |
| 19 | On this ground the proceedings of the licensing court were either reduced , or the pursuer 's averments were held relevant , in the following circumstances : when two of the members of the court had been employed by the applicant as part-time barmen for a number of years , without remuneration apart from money gifts at holiday periods : McDonald v. Fin lay ( supra ) ; when three of the members of the court were shareholders , and one was a director , of the company owning the property for which the certificate was sought , and when that company was closely allied with another company , the officials and directors of both being the same persons , on whose behalf the certificate was applied for : Blaik v. Anderson ( 1899 ) 7 S.L.T. 299 ; when a member of the court had recently been a shareholder of the company on whose behalf the certificate was applied for , and he had on previous occasions himself been the applicant on the company 's behalf , he being an avowed and pledged advocate of the company : Ower v. Crichton ( 1902 ) 10 S.L.T. 271 ; when members of a court had , in their capacity as members of a local authority , and with a view to street improvement , taken an active part in negotiating the purchase of licensed premises from brewers , who agreed to pay a sum of money to the local authority if a new licence were obtained for other premises , such as the subject of the application : R. v. Sunderland JJ. [ 1901 ] 2 K.B . |
| 20 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 21 | Looking at her more closely , he realized she was much older than he had at first thought . |
| 22 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 23 | A Pharisee by training and once a vehement conservative , he had at one stage harassed the infant church but was dramatically converted by confrontation with a vision of the risen Lord . |
| 24 | He had at one stage been described as the worst farmer in Britain and RSPCA investigators found emaciated animals when they went there . |
| 25 | By taking my hand and giving signs , he had at one time wanted me to come to his house — an invitation no doubt to show his friendship . |
| 26 | I believe he had at one time worked with Cizek and he certainly knew of Tagore 's work and writing . |
| 27 | He had at one time used the property as a guest house and a number of people , who had at one time or another resided in the guest house , had become friends of his . |
| 28 | There was Miss Sharon Hughes with whom the deceased had been very friendly and who , it is said , he had at one time wanted to marry . |
| 29 | He had at one time suspected his mother of doing precisely this . |
| 30 | Mr Hewitt , dying of cancer in hospital , said to Mrs Sen — his close friend for thirty years , with whom he had at one time cohabited — " The house is yours , Margaret . |