Example sentences of "he had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wing Commander J.M. Gilchrist had been appointed Bursar and Clerk to the Governors in 1962 , and to him had fallen the task — in addition to his ordinary duties — of arranging the financing of the numerous building programmes . |
| 2 | And around him had arisen the sight — seen so often on his travels — of the hundreds of thousands of vagrants , beggar men , women and children , now roving over the richest island in the world like tormented souls in irredeemable exile … |
| 3 | The splendour of the fourteenth century fan vaulting soaring elegantly , anciently , above him had made no comment . |
| 4 | She had seen Billy enter the dining rooms in front of her as she returned from the park with Rachel , and the sight of him had sent a little shiver through her body . |
| 5 | And although Thornton seemed the obvious choice to the outside world , relationships with him had reached a new low in October 1985 . |
| 6 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 7 | She tried to move away , disturbed by the realisation that her feelings towards him had undergone a subtle change even though she could n't quite define it . |
| 8 | He wished that one of the journalists who 'd interviewed him had expressed the substance of his life and work in such up-market , romantic terms . |
| 9 | She was herself the daughter of a rabbi , whose father and grandfather before him had upheld the light of Jewish learning in their part of Poland . |
| 10 | For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war . |
| 11 | This new Rose who had descended upon him had joined the gaudy throng , for reasons she would n't divulge , and had lost some of her individuality . |
| 12 | Gubbins was educated at Battersea Polytechnic , but was taken away at sixteen when the headmaster told his mother that educating him had proved a hopeless task . |
| 13 | John Cleese and Eric Idle who had both been at Cambridge with him had had no idea . |
| 14 | Formerly , Alick Nkhata and men like him had adapted the western popular music of the time , particularly country and western music , which they married with traditional melodies and themes . |
| 15 | He said that , during the 20-minute journey to the quarry at Furnace on Loch Fyne , a lit cigarette had been used to burn him on the back of the neck , he had been struck constantly , and as the car travelled at speeds up to 70mph , the man beside him had opened the door and told him to take his chances and jump . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was a case where a householder escaped a claim for civil damages after he had stabbed an intruder with a bayonet ! |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | I had observed with what relish he had improvised a rape — of a Soviet actress — for a scene in one of our novels . |
| 20 | He had broken a bone . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had broken the rules and the punishment had warped him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In fact he had broken the most famous statesman of Europe , and within six months succeeded to Lloyd George 's place if not to his fame . |
| 25 | He had broken the fourth wall . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Clark was surprised to be told he had broken the course record by 26 seconds . |