Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he had stabbed a lone sergeant to death the callous murderer kept gory souvenirs of his crime in the glove compartment of his car . |
| 2 | There had been the regrettable occasion in the Chamber when he had kissed the Labour Party 's spokesman for the Arts , a Mr Mark Fisher , on his bald pate , an escapade that had attracted what his wife Marjorie had called ‘ bloody bad publicity ’ . |
| 3 | He had broken the fourth wall . |
| 4 | Price , of Zimbabwe , shot a cautious second round 68 and was surprised to hear he had broken the previous record set by Mark O'Meara and Steve Jones in 1987 . |
| 5 | He had begun an impressive defence of the title he took in Rabat last year with a hat-trick of birdies . |
| 6 | By his early twenties , his musical curriculum vitae was already breathtaking , as he had recorded the complete Beethoven piano concertos with Klemperer , the two Brahms showpieces with Barbirolli , and the complete cycle of Mozart concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra . |
| 7 | On 24 July he had criticized the first version of the ecumenical decree , Ut Omnes Unum Sint : So although it is no doubt true to say that Pope John approved in general of the prepared texts , he was not deeply attached to them and was prepared to see them dropped without any deep sense of personal loss . |
| 8 | In March 1178 he had renewed an old alliance with Castile — an aggressive alliance directed against the little mountain kingdom of Navarre . |
| 9 | He had intended a painless death ; not being burned alive . |
| 10 | At one time he had intended a whole chapter of The Complete History of Wimbledon to be devoted to the issue of Maltby , but somehow the chapter had never materialized . |
| 11 | Marcellus ' defence was that he had taught the ignorant to respect and wonder at the beautiful and marvellous works of Greece ( Marc . 21 ) . |
| 12 | He had hated the little brochure that described it — the pathetic attempt to make it look glamorous , the photographs of it , posed , doors open , doors shut , desperately trying not to look like what it was — a square box with hideous speckled seats . |
| 13 | On one occasion we bought two from a toothless ancient , whose family claimed he was a hundred and twenty years old and boasted that he had killed a hundred and forty men in his day . |
| 14 | Sharpe remembered the familiar skill with which he had killed the French Lieutenant in this very rye field . |
| 15 | He said a bargain was a bargain ; he had found the treasure , he had risked the Caliph 's wrath , and he had killed the three assassins . |
| 16 | When , later on , his only son died it was taken to be a sign that he had killed the supposed lover unjustly . |
| 17 | Codron felt the same way about Ken as Bamber Gascoigne had felt — and knew he had cast the right man in the right sort of roles . |
| 18 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 19 | As long ago as 1172 Henry II had promised to mount a crusade and ever since then he had done nothing about it — though he had given a good deal of financial aid to the stricken kingdom . |
| 20 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 21 | Each time he had given a little shrug , as though to say , ‘ We 'll see ’ , and left it at that . |
| 22 | Hawke immediately denied the allegation to the federal parliament , claiming that he had given no such promise and that a decision about the tax was not made until a month after the lunch . |
| 23 | She had talked about thresholds and he had given an authoritative paper on ‘ The Potent Castrato : the phallogocentric structuration of Balzac 's hermaphrodite hero/ines ’ . |
| 24 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 25 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 26 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 27 | Gauci had remembered the sale so vividly that , almost ten months later , he had given the Scottish police a probable date for it , 23 November 1988 , and provided a FBI videofit artist with a detailed description of his customer — he believed , a Libyan . |
| 28 | ABOUT 15 YEARS ago the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum announced that he had discovered a new personality type — the compulsive programmer . |
| 29 | In 1810 , the Russian industrialist Jacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands , looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new land-mass . |
| 30 | At first he thought that he had discovered a new particle , but then an astrophysicist friend of one of Alvarez 's colleagues recognised that it had the characteristics of proton-deuteron fusion — pd fusion-catalysed by a muon . |