Example sentences of "he had [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had dallied with other performers , this time it was the final straw for Ethel — this one , she considered , was rotten at her job ! |
| 2 | Using his Farman , which he had flown with such excellent results for the past few years , Jack instructed pupils with equally good results . |
| 3 | The turnpike from Salisbury towards Romsey was the best and earned high praise for the trustees , whose management he judged responsible , for he had met with other roads whose materials were as fine but " never with any that were so firmly united , and kept so totally free from loose stones , ruts and water " . |
| 4 | On Dec. 31 Salim announced that he had met with various Somali representatives in Addis Ababa , Djibouti and Nairobi . |
| 5 | Hariri denied reports that he had met with Lebanese opposition figures in France . |
| 6 | Where was all that charm he had lathered with sickening profuseness on Simone ? |
| 7 | Burton never — to my knowledge — spoke of the early mass of films he had seen with any of that significant affection other actors give to their earliest influences . |
| 8 | ‘ You are English , are you not , Sor ? ’ he had asked with haughty disdain . |
| 9 | Eden was soon complaining that , with the departure of Truman and Acheson , he had to deal with inexperienced people in Washington . |
| 10 | As captain , he had to deal with endless media attention , and did so with his usual charm . |
| 11 | His patients were mainly Merseyside dockers and shipyard workers , and seamen injured at sea , and he had to deal with many severe accident cases . |
| 12 | He acknowledged now that the majority of people , the great brown mass of the fieldworkers , had not even been noticed by the visionary pharaoh he had followed with such devotion , let alone been affected by his thinking . |
| 13 | Not painted for a specific location and comprising canvases of different dimensions , the frieze was a pool of images from which Munch made withdrawals for sale , replacing the pictures which he had plundered with new versions of the same composition . |
| 14 | He had experimented with various foods and found that by restricting his diet to one of fresh fruits and vegetables he could control his migraine . |
| 15 | He had experimented with flying machines as early as 1893 . |
| 16 | Jones was in his room in the Cabinet Offices , carrying on the routine business of a Labour Government , of which paradoxically he was throughout his life a consistent voting supporter , but enjoying none of the intimacy with MacDonald which he had achieved with each of the three preceding Prime Ministers . |
| 17 | 2 June Beijing University postgraduate student Chai Qing Feng dies as a result of wounds received during a ‘ brawl ’ at a snack bar near to campus where he had gone with some friends to buy drinks . |
| 18 | He also indicated that he had disagreed with other members of the government on the running of the education department and said that he had been " gradually marginalized within the government " . |
| 19 | As a senior member of the banking committee in the late 1980s , he had intervened with federal regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating , while soliciting about $1,000,000 in political contributions from Keating 's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association [ see pp. 37848 ; 37998 ; 38223 ] . |
| 20 | He had registered with warm approval the tears of Antiochus III , when the rebel Achaeus was brought to him " bound hand and foot " ( 8.20.9 ) . |
| 21 | He had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges which each carried maximum sentences of one year in prison and $100,000 in fines , but he had been treated leniently because he had co-operated with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh , whose Iran-contra investigation was in its final stages . |
| 22 | It was a world he had relinquished with small regret and he had not expected to find it again on Larksoken headland . |
| 23 | They might be dressed as soldiers — he had noticed with growing suspicion that there were far more soldiers on the streets in recent months — or they might just be posing as ordinary officers of the law . |
| 24 | When high rents and falling prices threatened the farm with insolvency he decided to use the experience he had obtained with domestic animals by training to become a veterinary surgeon . |
| 25 | On the way upstairs , the porter remembered how he had struggled with all their luggage and had received no tip . |
| 26 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 27 | Umpire Bird called Waqar for a second over-shoulder-high bouncer to Smith in his next over , and signalled what he had done with laudable clarity . |
| 28 | He had danced with some of the other girls but not with her . |
| 29 | Ron died in the early hours of Saturday 15 February following illness which he had fought with characteristic resilience , striving to maintain his involvement in the many spheres in sport to which he had brought such positive influence . |
| 30 | He had predicted with uncanny accuracy the result of a snooker championship . |