Example sentences of "he had [verb] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been a thin , light-framed boy , and he had grown to become a lean , wiry man ; the years of life on merchant ships , and then in Australia , had left his skin looking well-used , like soft and fine-grained — but slightly distressed — leather . |
| 2 | There remained one last work for him to complete ; already he had begun writing a play which was to concern a successful public man who , at the end of his life , is waiting for death . |
| 3 | He had begun to drink a lot during the day as he had learned to go to the fridge and help himself to prepared squash . |
| 4 | He had begun building a water-powered factory and consolidating his landed estate by purchase . |
| 5 | Even before he reached his nineteenth birthday , he had begun to make a name as a choreographer , and one of the works he made then is still danced : only a trifle , but full of the wit that was one of his gifts . |
| 6 | By the time of his little daughter 's death in June 1788 , Mozart 's finances were in a desperate state , and he had begun to write a series of begging letters to his friend and fellow-Mason , Michael Puchberg . |
| 7 | Despite his earlier protestations to Fakrid , he had begun to feel a little lonely pondering his various dilemmas . |
| 8 | It had been alleged in London , possibly truthfully , that he had intended to make a drinking tankard of it . |
| 9 | After his injury in the 400 metre semi final at the Barcelona Olympics , he had hoped to make a career in basketball . |
| 10 | He had hoped to find a door . |
| 11 | He had wanted to publish a full-length article from me in The Criterion ; and in expressing the hope that this sort of work would be ‘ a help ’ , he was , with his knowledge of the therapeutic value of work , perfectly right . |
| 12 | In fairness to Sarah he had wanted to devote a whole day to her , but the pressure of his work had made it impossible , and he had been forced to settle for an afternoon wedding , following a Governors ' meeting , so that he and his bride could depart for Chertsey on the last train . |
| 13 | He said he had wanted to see a national statistics council to act as a protective agency 10 years ago . |
| 14 | Thus even if he had wanted to introduce a programme of radical social reform , Alexander had to tread carefully . |
| 15 | Levi explains that he had amused himself by writing a ‘ Western ’ and that he had wanted to write a hopeful book . |
| 16 | Although he had declined to leave a name , he must have hoped to catch her before she returned south . |
| 17 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 18 | A messenger he had employed to take a letter to France revealed its contents to the king . |
| 19 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
| 20 | It was a wonderful succès d'estime for him and his miming — he had to mime building a cathedral — was spell-binding . ’ |
| 21 | Her old father was extricating himself from the front seat slowly , painfully , gasping , as though he had to push open a heavy coffin lid in order to rise from the dead . |
| 22 | Romantic he certainly was , but I feel there was a deeper layer of consciousness from which he had decided to take a calculated risk , fully believing he would survive . |
| 23 | His mum had returned them unwatched because he had decided to visit a nightclub instead . |
| 24 | He had decided to play a little game and risk putting pressure on the person he was convinced had committed the murder — Jim Lancaster , the man who had taken his jacket and trousers to the dry cleaner 's the day after the murder to have some stains removed . |
| 25 | He had been so moved by reading Political Justice that in 1794 he had decided to found a Godwinian state in a remote part of America . |
| 26 | However , scarcely was the ink dry on the paper when , at the end of December 1981 , the Secretary of State announced in the House of Commons that , ‘ with the agreement of the local authority associations and after consultation with other interested parties ’ , he had decided to establish a new body to advise him on the distribution of the advanced further education pool and on academic provision in local authority institutions of higher education . |
| 27 | This particular morning , because his car had broken down , he was unable to take Mum to work and he had decided to have a lie-in . |
| 28 | Another guard , Wilfred Lane , said he had decided to have a go at the robber , by grabbing him round the neck and catching hold of his gun hand . |
| 29 | He had decided to make a move . |
| 30 | Hoping he had decided to make a clean sweep and tell Marc everything , Sarella waited to hear what he had to say . |