Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had observed with what relish he had improvised a rape — of a Soviet actress — for a scene in one of our novels . |
| 2 | He had broken a bone . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had his back to me , and he had grown a beard , but his hair was still thick and blond . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had grown a moustache in order to look like Ian Botham and he drove a 1960s Jag like Inspector Morse . |
| 9 | He had grown a lot in the last few months . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was not , in fact , an exponent of the martial arts , but for a few short but character-forming weeks during a university summer vacation he had boxed a kangaroo called Cobber in a travelling circus . |
| 13 | Lower down the page he had scribbled a quotation from Shelley : ‘ Life stains the white radiance of Eternity ’ . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the previous month , he had given a reading in New York where one observer described him as a " hot ticket " . |
| 15 | All too typical , however , was Lord Keith 's remark in 1799 that he had given a lieutenant 's commission to ‘ the Duchess of Atholle 's friend Glen Geary … a heavy dog too ’ , while passing over a brighter but less well-connected midshipman . |
| 16 | Here was the women whose father he had unsuccessfully defended , to whom he had given a home and a job , who was supposed to be devoted to him . |
| 17 | Finally Mozart was able to report to his father that he had given a concert , and that his takings , before expenses , were 90 gulden . |
| 18 | He had given a picture of religion , which represented it as primarily concerned with guilt , with taboos against incest , and as er , representing the origins of civilization in primeval societies like those of the Australian Aborigines , and Freud erm , remarks in the opening pages of Civilization and Discontents that Totem and Taboo was never meant to be a complete theory of religion . |
| 19 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 20 | Some time previously , he had discovered a system of cryptography — he called it the ‘ Atbash Cipher ’ — which had been used to conceal certain names in Essene/Zadokite/Nazarean texts . |
| 21 | All around him , backstabbing and financial disaster fomented chaos , inside he had discovered a universe of beauty and order . |
| 22 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 23 | He had discovered a method of intercepting springs , and , using stone to seal his drains , he and others like him set about spreading the gospel of effective underdrainage . |
| 24 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 25 | As well as finding all about him an array of ornithological novelties of unparalleled beauty and originality , he had discovered a region abounding in extraordinary marsupials : giant kangaroos that could outrun a dog , duck-billed platypi , opossums , koalas , and spiny anteaters . |
| 26 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 27 | She was horrified until she guessed he had lit a cigarette . |
| 28 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 29 | ‘ On the contrary , he said advertisements had their good points ; he had written a poem about Steyr automobiles and been given a car for it . |
| 30 | ‘ He said he had written a document which would explain everything — all his views on negotiations . |