Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | During the Occupation he had manipulated his symbolic stature , but in the aftermath of liberation there was a danger of becoming its prisoner . |
| 32 | He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies . |
| 33 | He had written her several letters , and had had two prim replies . |
| 34 | In 1838 he had written his only novel , Malvagna , or the Evil Eye , a romantic work set in Sicily , but it did not attract public attention . |
| 35 | His greatest idea came after he had written his first works and was doing an index for a book : this was to give a name composed of two words , a generic name and a specific or trivial one , to each species . |
| 36 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 37 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 38 | SCHOOLBOY Robert Airey thought he had lost his best friend forever . |
| 39 | Take Henry I , for example , the king who never smiled again , our teacher told us , after he had lost his only son and heir , in the White Ship : then they found he had twenty-four little baskets scattered all round the country . |
| 40 | On 14 February 1791 he had lost his young wife , Anna , to whom he was devoted . |
| 41 | He had lost his right hand by some accident , and supplied it with a grappling hook , which he wielded with tolerable adroitness … |
| 42 | The Cuban intellectuals were saying that after listening to Valtr Komarek for 14 hours he had lost his socialist ideals and went to commit suicide in the Bolivian jungle . |
| 43 | After years he had lost his oldest and best friend but in a way he had always despised friendship ; families were what mattered , more particularly that larger version of himself — his family ; and while seated in the same scheming fury he saw each individual member gradually slipping away out of his reach . |
| 44 | In the interests of speed and surprise Henry had brought no artillery train with him from Poitiers so Richard was quite safe in the great fortress of Taillebourg , but he had lost his military stores as well as the services of the sixty knights and four hundred archers captured in Saintes . |
| 45 | Rozanov 's false teeth — he had lost his natural ones in the psikhushka — flashed in appreciation of the metaphor . |
| 46 | Was it because he had lost his own parents during his teens that he so desperately wanted a family ? |
| 47 | He had lost his magnetic grapple on the deck . |
| 48 | He had been slowly emotionally battered ever since he had met his beloved Rosemary . |
| 49 | But first he had to inhibit his habitual responses . |
| 50 | He had supported them all their lives and what had they ever done for him except wait for him to die ? |
| 51 | Since then he had declared himself busy whenever I rang and asked for a taxi to take me to the Turkman Gate . ) |
| 52 | Orwell , unlike Waugh , was never a natural master of narrative , and his uncertain career in fiction had begun , after much trial and error , with Burmese Days ( 1934 ) , where he had exploited his youthful experiences in the Burma police . |
| 53 | Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter . |
| 54 | He had called her sensuous . |
| 55 | Ruthie ; it was the first time he had called her that here in Majorca . |
| 56 | And you would know that at last he had called his own bluff . |
| 57 | If she had come into his mind he had operated his cancelling switch as he did when any of the denizens of Ecalpemos strayed into his thoughts . |
| 58 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 59 | He had told her that he had wanted her that night at the house , but he needed no words now — his body was evidence enough — and sheets of flame seemed to shoot through her as her arms wound around his neck and she arched against the demanding , hardening muscles . |
| 60 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |