Example sentences of "he had [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This deficiency he shared with a whole crew of leaders of third-world or so-called ‘ non-aligned ’ countries , who like him had gained power because they were against foreign rulers , not because they had any idea of what to put in place of foreign rule .
2 And with him had gone Miss Gemma Dallam 's brown Chinese satin and every shred of hope Cara had cherished for the future .
3 Something unpushable about him had made Davies hesitate , and he 'd been all right , there had been nothing to fear ; he and Davies were friends now .
4 For years he and his father before him had endured advice from well-meaning lunatics as to what he should do with the place — concreting the stones , or letting archaeologists burrow under them with their excavations , or digging a defensive moat round it — and Sir Edmund Antrobus , Bart , had had enough .
5 The encounter with him had left Maggie with an enormous lump in her throat .
6 Obviously their kiss had been a mistake and a fiasco from the start , and her own wariness about her naïve feelings for him had rung warning bells in her mind since his first mention of a ‘ private nursing job ’ .
7 Within an hour he had kissed Maeve adieu and they were on the road south to Westminster .
8 This did not prevent his offering Baldwin the Exchequer before he had kissed hands .
9 He had kissed Holly , wetly on each cheek , and he had not cared who had seen him , and he had whispered in Holly 's ear .
10 Edward III believed that he had broken Scotland 's will to resist English domination .
11 ‘ He brought a letter with him saying he had broken school rules .
12 ‘ He had been off-colour after running in the Mildmay at Sandown earlier in the season and we found that he had broken blood vessels , ’ said Gaselee .
13 He was taken to the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital where doctors found he had broken ribs , a damaged spine and minor head injuries .
14 If he had grown opium on his half acre , he would have been guaranteed at least 20,000 rupees .
15 Mr Van Eck said that he had recorded documentary evidence that police — some in plain clothes — had been shooting supporters of local headmen who had broken away from the committee running Crossroads , alleging fraud and corruption .
16 He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling .
17 He had pointed features and protruding yellow teeth .
18 The charge , of revealing information likely to harm state security , related to his memoirs , published in Algiers , in which he had criticized decisions taken by President Sadat during the 1973 war .
19 The loss of his Prime Minister 's salary was a serious matter , and he refused to take either to journalism or the City , as he had criticized Lloyd George for one and Sir Robert Horne for the other .
20 Though he had defeated heavyweight champion Sonny Liston and defended his title nine times , Ali never had a dramatic constituency before .
21 Before 675 he had defeated Wulfhere of Mercia [ q.v. ] , bringing the kingdom of Lindsey ( north Lincolnshire ) and possibly a larger part of Mercia under his direct rule : his presence at the synod of Hertford in 672 may be a mark of this temporary overlordship .
22 Usry , who pleaded not guilty and was released on bail , had been elected in 1984 , when he had defeated Michael J. Matthews who was subsequently convicted for accepting payoffs .
23 ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . )
24 Franco knew that Yagüe would show the enemy no mercy ; that was why he had deployed Yagüe with the Legion in Asturias , in 1934 , and that was why he repeated the tactic in 1936 .
25 He had to see Liza again .
26 ‘ After his … after the business at Narborough , he had to see Canon Wheeler every now and again .
27 She said he would have come himself but he had to go Oxford of course .
28 It was not difficult to see how he had converted Maisie .
29 How jarring it seemed then that , at the consecration , reference had necessarily to be made to the man Jesus of Nazareth : he had to take centre stage .
30 The woman sitting in front of him was right , he had to take responsibility for himself .
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