Example sentences of "[adj] had [vb pp] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly he told Dalziel what he had just learned from Antony and of the train of thought this had started in his mind . |
| 2 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 3 | The other members of staff knew that his apparent simpleness was due to a sad childhood ; he had been brutally beaten by his father and this had resulted in his withdrawing into himself . |
| 4 | King Joseph had fled and the British had swarmed over his supply wagons where some men , Sharpe and Harper among them , had become rich . |
| 5 | The last of these classes consists of the famous eight medreses which Mehmed II had built round his mosque in Istanbul : the mosque itself was finished in 875/1470–1 , and the medreses were finished presumably at about the same date . |
| 6 | A low , ominous buzzing had started inside his head . |
| 7 | The pace of change and innovation which the latter had initiated with his new Science Block in the 1950s , and which Scott had continued and quickened during his years , was now reaching its logical conclusion with the taking over of the Convent buildings and the admission of girls in September 1980 . |
| 8 | He had thirty battalions of redcoats , but only half of those had fought in his Spanish campaigns and the quality of the other half was unknown . |
| 9 | MID had changed during his exile . |
| 10 | That had led to his sudden and unexpected collapse , the heart giving out . |
| 11 | It would have stopped in exactly the same way if only one of the two had stepped on his pedal . |