Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a case where a householder escaped a claim for civil damages after he had stabbed an intruder with a bayonet ! |
| 2 | I had observed with what relish he had improvised a rape — of a Soviet actress — for a scene in one of our novels . |
| 3 | He had broken a bone . |
| 4 | Omero knew exactly what she meant as he had broken a tooth as a result of eating rock given to him by visitors at Easter , and sometimes it really hurts . |
| 5 | This man , he was a criminal , he was one of the worst , he had broken the laws of the land and he was being crucified for that reason but the measure of his sin , the gravity of his sin , did not alter his chance of sa being saved . |
| 6 | On his return he was taken to the sleeping cell and , following the usual routine , was locked in , but on the next day the cell was empty ; he had broken the stone to which the iron grid was fixed . |
| 7 | He had broken the rules and the punishment had warped him . |
| 8 | Clark was surprised to be told he had broken the course record by 26 seconds . |
| 9 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 10 | He lost the line again and , though he tried to disguise the lapse with a dramatic move , he feared he had broken the tension of the scene . |
| 11 | The phone was working again , the engineer had scribbled on the back of an envelope , and he was very sorry he had broken the table lamp standing next to it on the coffee table . |
| 12 | He had his back to me , and he had grown a beard , but his hair was still thick and blond . |
| 13 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 14 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 15 | He was waiting on the Jackley Road outside a pub called the Ostrich , Kevin 's double in every particular until he had grown a moustache . |
| 16 | He had grown a moustache in order to look like Ian Botham and he drove a 1960s Jag like Inspector Morse . |
| 17 | He had grown a lot in the last few months . |
| 18 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 19 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 20 | When Archelaos died he had begun an intervention in Thessaly which , had it been carried through , might have pre-empted Philip 's operations in the 350s . |
| 21 | Tug was suffering already from the lack of training and the stupid way he had begun the run . |
| 22 | He had begun the clearing and draining of the Fairfax land and was helping with the actual physical labour himself . |
| 23 | He had already drafted two acts at the beginning of the previous year , and even before he had been taken ill this autumn he had begun the work of revising them . |
| 24 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 25 | Shaikh Abdellatif al-Mahmoud , a professor of Islamic Studies at Bahrein University , was detained on Dec. 14 on his return from a seminar in Kuwait in which he had criticized the systems of government in the six countries of the Gulf Co-operation Council . |
| 26 | He claimed too that the Reeve is presented as indicting the Miller for a judgement he does not make , i.e. that he had criticized the Reeve for being over-ready to see himself as a priest , the agent of God 's punishment , through John 's naive readiness to see himself as a second Noah . |
| 27 | He had criticized the role of the local Mafia-style organization , the Camorra , in providing medical and other supplies to the local health services . |
| 28 | On 2nd July he had criticized the organization of the competition and the judges ' decision to award only one prize to each competitor . |
| 29 | Fowler , who arrived a few minutes later , was middle-aged ; he had stayed a detective constable ostensibly because he could not pass the examination for sergeant , but his colleagues claimed that he deliberately avoided promotion . |
| 30 | Inevitably , he had flooded the engine , and then had to wait before he could try again , and still no sign of life . |