Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] the " 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 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For one thing , many of those who had opposed him had joined the Royalist army and had been killed in the war . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | He had broken the rules and the punishment had warped him . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had broken the fourth wall . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Clark was surprised to be told he had broken the course record by 26 seconds . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Tug was suffering already from the lack of training and the stupid way he had begun the run . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | He had begun the clearing and draining of the Fairfax land and was helping with the actual physical labour himself . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On 2nd July he had criticized the organization of the competition and the judges ' decision to award only one prize to each competitor . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had criticized the role of the local Mafia-style organization , the Camorra , in providing medical and other supplies to the local health services . |
| 30 | 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 . |