Example sentences of "he [vb past] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud had always supposed that the various forms of innate behaviour he explored had biological bases to them . |
| 2 | Three of them he thought had special gifts but five were " dangerous " . |
| 3 | At night a light had to be on all the time and Blake 's prison clothes had to be placed outside his cell while , during the day , the clothes he wore had distinctive patches of coloured cloth on them to show that he was on the escape list . |
| 4 | But also , he was drawn towards Bernard , whose vision and single-mindedness he greatly admired , and a business which he felt had great potential for further growth . |
| 5 | Both newspapers he bought had big articles on the murder of Nicola Sharpe . |
| 6 | But what he said had little effect on Sally-Anne compared with the sight of his face at last . |