Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] a letter " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 2 | That same night he had written a letter which she first saw on opening her eyes , which she had read over her coffee , wearing , she remembered now , her new negligee with its neck of coral swansdown . |
| 3 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |
| 4 | Bloom got on to me and said he had received a letter from this young . |
| 5 | He said he had received a letter ‘ out of the blue ’ , asking if the museum would like it . |
| 6 | For example : Mr. Butlin , the house surgeon and secretary , reported that he had received a letter from Mr. Whitworth , the Town Clerk , informing him that Bedford Corporation had agreed to subscribe five guineas per annum . |
| 7 | Clearing his throat noisily , Price perched a pair of gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose and announced he had received a letter from India . |
| 8 | DM informed the Group that he had received a letter from the Open University , who have taken over the CNAA 's role in validating research degrees undertaken outside the academic sector . |
| 9 | Then , only six months since , he had received a letter ( ‘ Private and Strictly Confidential ’ ) . |
| 10 | Now on the Friday , the eighteenth of October , er Peter telephoned the plaintiff 's home to speak to Mr erm but on this occasion he spoke to his assistant June and er , she was someone who at this stage was involved in the planning and the running of the business together with acting very much as his personal assistant and Mr had a conversation with June on the telephone in which he told her that he had received a letter from the solicitors which indicated that they had not yet , er , the landlords er licence to assign had not yet been given . |
| 11 | The trouble was that Arnold said he had had a letter from a Mr Anderson who wanted to caddie for him as well . |
| 12 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 13 | He disclosed that he had delivered a letter from Saddam Hussein to Rafsanjani in Tehran on Feb. 8 containing the Iraqi President 's formal reply to the latest Iranian proposals . |