Example sentences of "he had [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson therefore regularized a practice he had begun in 1964 when outsiders such as Professors Nicholas Kaldor and Robert Neild had been recruited into the Treasury , a practice which Heath had followed on a smallish scale . |
| 2 | He had begun in 1833 to work also on 10 plates for Gould 's Monograph of Toucans , a single volume of 34 plates on a single species similar to Lear 's own original Parrot publication , and which was to finish in the same year , 1835 , as the Birds of Europe . |
| 3 | The urine sample taken from the colt after he had trailed in 10th , 23 lengths behind stable-mate Commander In Chief , proved negative when analysed by the Horseracing Forensic Laboratory . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it could be claimed with some justification that moral considerations were involved in Gandhi 's decision to fast and that he did what he thought he had to do in those situations . |
| 5 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 6 | In cross examination he accepted that there was no such reference in any report he had written in this case and agreed that quote , I do n't think I 've discussed Cheshire Homes before today , unquote . |
| 7 | The words ‘ Hey , there ’ were underlined and across the top of the page he had written in bold capitals ENGLISH . |
| 8 | Geoffrey de Geneville outlived his two sons , Geoffrey and Peter , and died in 1314 , far from his native Champagne and full of years , at the Dominican priory of Trim , to which he had retired in 1308 . |
| 9 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 10 | Several others , however , including one individual who testified that he had suffered discriminatory treatment from his employers because of views he had expressed in public about the political situation , requested that their names be withheld from the final report , because they felt that their jobs and perhaps even their very lives would be at risk . |
| 11 | The government of Lord North , which he had opposed in 1773 , encouraged Sulivan to take on the management of the Company yet again in 1780 . |
| 12 | Having been a hostage among the Huns himself , he had called in Hunnic troops to support the usurper Joannes in 425 ; he fled to them after his defeat at the hands of Boniface in 432 ; and he was probably behind their destruction of the Burgundian kingdom in the mid-430s . |
| 13 | How could he forget the first daemon he had combatted in full knowledge of its nature ? |
| 14 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 15 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 16 | He commended the author for his exact instructions regarding the building of greenhouses and stoves , each of which was illustrated to show improvements he had made in these aspects of horticulture . |
| 17 | His realm was split between his three sons Sancho , Alfonso and Garcia , along the lines of a will he had made in 1063 . |
| 18 | The plaintiff sued to recover payments he had made in past years , and the Court of Appeal , reversing the judgment of Rowlatt J. , held that he was entitled to do so . |
| 19 | But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war . |
| 20 | Chauthala needed to win a seat in the Haryana state assembly to secure his post as Chief Minister , a post which he had inherited in 1989 from his father , the powerful Deputy Prime Minister , Devi Lal . |
| 21 | The complex legacy which he had inherited in 1016 had been well utilised , a considerable number of its problems solved ( for a time , at least ) , and many of its opportunities taken . |
| 22 | Then , when King John took over the French lands which he had inherited in 1200 , he was allowed to do so only on condition that he should recognise them as being fiefs held of the king of France . |
| 23 | Some of the most original and beautiful designs he had seen in thirty years . |
| 24 | In the accompanying chairman 's statement , John Partridge said that the market for the year covered had been one the of the most difficult he had seen in thirty years of heading the company , with a particularly poor level of sales in the early summer months . |
| 25 | He had come to Addis Ababa as correspondent for the Graphic and he later made use of the occasion to parody what he had seen in Black Mischief and other books . |
| 26 | A SHERIFF yesterday reported a solicitor to the Law Society of Scotland for what he said was the worst courtroom behaviour he had seen in 40 years . |
| 27 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 28 | By the time he called it a day , he had played in 60 Tests and taken 249 wickets at 23 , and like all of his fast-bowling colleagues had benefited from being one of a quartet as he could operate in short spells and rest more often . |
| 29 | He had played in 164 of the 168 Division One matches that Palace had contested . |
| 30 | Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors . |