Example sentences of "[pron] he had [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was not a botanic garden in the modern sense of the word , but an area in which Bartram grew and propagated his comprehensive collection of current American ornamental plants for which he had arduously searched in unexplored country . |
| 2 | President Guillermo Endara ended on March 13 a 13-day hunger strike which he had reportedly undertaken in solidarity with the most needy of Panamanians at a time of severe economic crisis . |
| 3 | He had a cheerful red face which he had n't succeeded in making entirely solemn and gloomy , though he was trying hard . |
| 4 | Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files . |
| 5 | I was also immensely proud when Gavin Campbell , who fronted last week 's B B C D E C appeal , told me that words could not describe the tremendously high quality of Save The Children 's work in Malawi , Mozambique and Sudan , which he had recently visited in order to film for the D E C appeal . |
| 6 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 7 | It was n't going to be that easy ; her flat — previously her haven from Luke and the bafflement and anger which he had always aroused in her — now seemed to vibrate with his presence . |
| 8 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |
| 9 | So Castells was the pioneer of what came to be seen as the ‘ new urban sociology ’ and , paradoxically , The City and the Grassroots seemed to recover some of the themes ( especially that of the experience of the immediate spatial and social setting ) which he had earlier rejected in the Chicago School . |
| 10 | Muldoon was beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling that he was pushing his opinions too far , something he had never done in his life . |
| 11 | And Mr Wolski did something he had never done in the Zoo before : he whistled the tune of a childhood song while he worked . |
| 12 | The Countess of Tyrone was there too , as were the High Sheriff Mr Brian Thomas , Mr and Mrs Galen Weston , and their tall good-looking son Mr Galen Weston Jnr , who all flew from Windsor by helicopter ; and , who told me he had not played in England for ten years ! |
| 13 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 14 | Later in the day Gorbachev had an audience with Pope John Paul II , whom he had previously met in December 1989 [ see p. 37129 ] . |
| 15 | The noble owner returned around nine o'clock , and renewed his acquaintance with Dr Johnson , with whom he had once dined in London . |
| 16 | Havel on July 26 paid a one-day private visit to Salzburg , Austria , together with the West German President , Richard von Weizsäcker ( whom he had earlier met in Bavaria ) . |
| 17 | He was with a group of friends whom he had apparently met in the gallery , and they were all standing around him admiringly , talking and laughing in that exaggeratedly animated way only Americans have , reacting and demanding reactions . |
| 18 | Success , however , ruined its author , who took to strange clothes and beliefs and ‘ never wrote any more , but wasted the rest of his time trying to explain what he had and what he had not meant in John Inglesant' . |
| 19 | In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry . |
| 20 | As some girls suddenly look too tall to be ballet dancers , she became too large for her father 's devotion , for Haverford always preferred smallish women with what he had once described in one of his more personal ‘ Jottings ’ as the ‘ tip-tilted noses of impertinent page-boys ’ . |