Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had grown into a slim blond young man , slightly ashen from his long hospital hours , a little frenzied and erratic in his gestures which spoke of bouts of sleeplessness and an adrenaline-fuelled energy . |
| 2 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 3 | He had blazed like a comet across Vietnam and the light did as much as anything in 1951 to dazzle the US and to persuade them that their assessments were right , that it was the right war and that , on certain conditions , it might also be a winnable war . |
| 4 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 5 | He had boxed during a brief spell in the army , and he enjoyed golfing and playing poker ; he also read thrillers and was a film addict . |
| 6 | Since sobering up after Christmas he had degenerated into a deep depression . |
| 7 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 8 | It would of just , it would have been , if he had n't been that he , you know that he had to go to a school in Northumberland , he was just as near |
| 9 | He kept his firm , muscular body in shape with an hour 's run every morning followed by a demanding work-out in the small shed adjacent to the cabin which he had converted into a mini-gym soon after arriving from New York . |
| 10 | Oh well he he he had to take on a oh he could easily afford it because he was paid about five shillings in the year . |
| 11 | That morning he had to call on a lot of goodwill from the proprietors and editors of the media . |
| 12 | He had lurched about a London drinking club soon after the Hiss case claiming ‘ I am the English Hiss ! ’ |
| 13 | The Padovani family had long been known to John Coffin since they had once run a restaurant near where he had lodged as a young detective . |
| 14 | Mozart worked with the commonplace musical fabric of his time , the prescribed structures , instrumental combinations , harmonic progressions and melodic formulae that he had absorbed as a child , and from which a Salieri and hundreds like him fashioned polite , two-dimensional drawing-room music suitable for the delectation or titillation of many a jaded aristocratic ear . |
| 15 | The dog he had raised from a pup went missing 31 days ago after running off on a country walk . |
| 16 | And he had to put on a brave face as he manned the tombola stall at a primary school Christmas bazaar where his children Adam , seven , and five-year-old Amber were among the revellers . |
| 17 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 18 | In 1845 he had written to a friend : |
| 19 | Mr Bates , 43 , of Hawkhurst , Kent , had flown to Miami in February last year to recover £500,000 he had lost in a crooked business deal . |
| 20 | He had flown into a rage when he found his car , left in a private car park in Hounslow , west London , was clamped , the Old Bailey heard yesterday . |
| 21 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 22 | Ted , fortunately , was fluent in ( Belgian ) French because he had flown as a pilot for Sabena for many years and was , I believe , highly thought of by our French colleagues . |
| 23 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 24 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 25 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 26 | He had hoped for a critical reexamination of the field . |
| 27 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 28 | He needed to compare his ledger 's statistics with the industry averages/norm , and he had hoped for a concentrated sample from their trade association , but no such luck . |
| 29 | He had hoped for a snort at least for this , but Rosie did not react . |
| 30 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |