Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] he had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 2 | ‘ Did , until your father died , ’ said Charlie , regretting the words immediately he had spoken them . |
| 3 | A Ugandan pathologist studying African cancer trends was sceptical of Zimbabwe 's high lung cancer figures compared with other African nations until he had checked our records for himself . |
| 4 | She is the 21-year-old actress from Grange Hill who went for an audition with Mr Winner , and , seven months after he had had his way with her on a regular basis , got dumped . |
| 5 | One remembered again the anger in his eyes as he had faced her across the table . |
| 6 | But she knew she had seen that covetous look in his eyes as he had watched her . |
| 7 | Because the blinkers had finally fallen from her eyes when he had asked her if it could be worse . |
| 8 | He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover 's eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to love . |
| 9 | No matter that she had n't understood the broken phrases gasped from Rune 's lips as he had devoured her with his kisses ; she knew instinctively that they had been an expression of his desire for her in that sweet moment of culmination . |
| 10 | But he could hardly have walked to St Matthew 's that way ; there were no signs that he had cleaned his shoes anywhere in the church . |
| 11 | Although Blake may have given the impression to the prison authorities that he had accepted his sentence and settled down to serve it ( it would surely have been odd had he done otherwise ) , in reality neither he nor the KGB had any intention of him remaining in prison a day longer than necessary . |
| 12 | Sensitive Sunday Telegraph columnist Sir Peregrine Worsthorne was so distressed by our views that he had to ask his secretary , Justine Oliver , to reply . |
| 13 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |
| 14 | The Grand Warlock was polishing the crown of ice magic in the ruins and he had to find him . |
| 15 | Seton did not appear to resent being replaced in the governorship ; indeed he might even have been somewhat relieved , for it was a grievous responsibility in present circumstances and he had borne it sufficiently long . |
| 16 | Innocent had not controlled French aspirations but he had made it clear that he saw himself as the arbiter of Europe and John 's cession of his kingdom in 1213 considerably strengthened the pope 's hand . |
| 17 | It was true , she felt , for in the heat of the moment a voice was warning her that he was only moved by desire now because she had n't fallen at his feet when he had followed her to London . |
| 18 | Something sudden had come up concerning the family fortunes and he had to consult his solicitors : it was the one excuse that his seniors being closer to retirement and thus deeply concerned with land values and capital transfer taxes accepted with sympathy . |
| 19 | It was only days since he had made it quite clear he was unavailable , that her presence was unwanted . |
| 20 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 21 | Even though his wife Primaflora was there and it was four weeks since he had touched her . |
| 22 | It was years since he had read it but he thought Jung had said something about the universal need for secret societies . |
| 23 | He told me however that two years before he had had his journal stolen and written it out again and that it was better second time around . |
| 24 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |
| 25 | He had not told her all he knew , she was sure of that , but he had confirmed her deduction about the provenance of the Durance paintings although he had stressed she could prove nothing . |
| 26 | Perhaps he had been so fascinated by the sight of the advancing waters that he had delayed his escape too long . |
| 27 | Ms Davis said that Orchard had denied to officers that he had done anything ‘ funny ’ to the girl . |
| 28 | The girl , whose name was Marion , was now a magistrate , and a grandmother , but the escapade had sharpened the young Grunte 's appetites and he had made it his business in the intervening years to keep up what he cheerfully called ‘ my rate of strike ’ . |
| 29 | He was fined five shillings because he had pursued his trade on a Sunday . |
| 30 | During his first term in office Macmillan had achieved the three objectives that he had set himself when he took over from Eden in 1957 . |