Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | One got the impression that Mr Callaghan felt that he had to put on one side the normal practice of consulting only a small group of inner ministers on economic issues , and had to carry all the colleagues , all twenty-two , if he was to have a hope of carrying the party in the country clearly out of the crisis . |
| 2 | Had a nice letter from one of the Romanian boys you met very concerned about my job position — he had heard from one of the others who 'd been in London in the summer and saw |
| 3 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 4 | Chris Heginbotham , when director of Mind , wrote of one sight he had witnessed in one well-known hospital south-east of London : |
| 5 | He was probably far gone enough not to realise yet that he had jumped from one box into a smaller one . |
| 6 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 7 | But this is what he had to say about one of the side effects that he noted . |
| 8 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 9 | He could hardly stand , he had to cling to one of the arms that helped him up . |
| 10 | Boscawen was another of Anson 's fire-eaters , a robust forthright seadog known to his men as ‘ Old Dreadnought ’ , from the name of the ship he had captained during one famous engagement , and he had used his 15 large ships and dozen smaller ‘ cruisers ’ to cause endless annoyance to the French and to tie up ten battalions of French infantry , waiting to repel an anticipated but imaginary landing . |
| 11 | His neck and shoulders gradually became so stiff that he had to turn in one piece from the waist up . |
| 12 | On Sept. 27 Ceausescu was released from custody for 90 days to undergo medical treatment for chronic cirrhosis of the liver ( a condition reportedly complicated by a stab wound he had received from one of the revolutionary mob moments after his Dec. 22 television appearance ) . |
| 13 | It is a picture indelibly imprinted , Ward 's voice painting it in quiet words , neither excited nor repelled by the horror of it , but simply repeating information he had obtained from one of the books he had borrowed from his Glasgow library as soon as he knew the route he would be taking to Punta Arenas and the Antarctic . |
| 14 | In his later years Pritchard lived in a house called Eyton Turret in Eyton-on-Severn , Shropshire , which he had formed from one of a pair of Jacobean garden buildings in the former grounds of a demolished mansion . |
| 15 | He did n't come quite under the heading of despised male sex but she was sure he had done at one time . |
| 16 | He had survived for one reason only . |
| 17 | As luck would have it , Jean-Claude found he needed some old scores he had put to one side as they were too heavy to bring along with everything else we had had to load on the motor cycle . |
| 18 | In 1763 he published What is Meant by Coming to Christ , the text of a sermon he had delivered in one of the London churches . |
| 19 | The Alpine snows closed over his militant steps , and the sinners he had excommunicated for one reason or another turned their thoughts from irregular union or simony , if they had ever been on them , and peered into the mists of what promised to be a very long vacancy . |
| 20 | He had lain in one of the lofts above the storehouses for several days , weak and sick after zig-zagging cross-country ahead of the hunt , moving by night in this foul summer , and lying up in woods and trees by day . |
| 21 | Scathach slung the clothing he had looted across one of the horses which still paced nervously in the enclosure . |
| 22 | Swinging his arm from left to right , he had scythed through one row of skinny necks after another until every bird was decapitated and motionless . |
| 23 | Sometimes when talking he would forget to call something by its name , and describe it instead , remembering what he had read in one of his books . |
| 24 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 25 | In Slater v. Burnley Corporation ( 1888 ) 59 L.T. 636 the plaintiff sued to recover an overcharge of water rates which he had paid for one quarter , but did not succeed . |
| 26 | Even in cases in the past , where he had looked for one and found none , he had always felt if he had searched harder or been luckier , then the answer would have been found . |
| 27 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |