Example sentences of "[conj] had [vb pp] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness . |
| 2 | Mr Fuchs 's champions say that he made no attempt to hide the financial problems that had arisen during his previous post when he was employed by The Hague . |
| 3 | He felt that Ellice had damaged his cause among the delegation as nobody there appreciated the amount of thought and consultation that had gone into his planning . |
| 4 | The boy swallowed the lump that had risen to his throat . |
| 5 | Characteristically Morse sought to swallow back the bitter-tasting fluid that had risen in his gorge ; and the surgeon , with understanding , pulled the rubber sheet over the head again . |
| 6 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 7 | Maria lifted a hand to hit him , but he looked so grimly reluctant that her fingers had uncurled before they reached his chest , touching him lightly before moving up to the lock of black hair that had fallen over his tanned brow . |
| 8 | Flavia Sherman brushed away a strand of hair that had fallen across his eyes and smiled fondly at him . |
| 9 | During his years at Oxford , he had spent part of his vacations in France , but those relatively short periods had given him no idea of the chaos that had prevailed since his father 's death . |
| 10 | Charlie tried to take in everything at once , but his eyes settled on a coloured picture that had hung above his bed in Whitechapel Road and had once belonged to his mother . |
| 11 | Last night , for the first time since he had married Fei Yen , he had summoned a woman to his bed — one of the serving girls from the kitchens — purging himself of the need that had raged in his blood like a poison . |
| 12 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 13 | It was this , more than the death , more than the coldness of his father 's cheek , that broke the ice that had formed about his feelings . |
| 14 | The senators smile faded and he leaned over the rail to let the ash that had formed on his cigar fall into the muddy river . |
| 15 | A DRINKER died 15 minutes after he was stung on the lip by a wasp that had dropped into his glass of port . |
| 16 | The ghost of his burning ; an ugly mask-fire , fear and evil-a mark that had spread across his face ; it had not covered him completely . |
| 17 | Soon afterwards , however , Ellcock became the ‘ nearly man ’ again , entering hospital for further surgery to remove the screws that had snapped in his back , ruling him out for the rest of the summer and , ultimately , despite encouraging practice sessions with the England A party last winter , the immediate future . |
| 18 | The heat that had bloomed in his blood became fire , travelling straight to his loins . |
| 19 | He was so very young , so hurt and confused by all that had happened in his life , it seemed only natural that he should want to lash out . |
| 20 | I was interested to hear Derek remark how much more difficult he found it to cull a larger fry , like the inch plus Angel that had slipped through his quality control . |
| 21 | After he had finished , he picked out the crumbs that had stuck in his beard . |
| 22 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 23 | Coroner John Leckey , extending his sympathy to the Phillips family , said many of the questions that had sprung to his mind about the case had been answered . |
| 24 | But Lord Dacre was not thinking of the odd circumstance that had resulted in his stepping into his cousin 's shoes . |
| 25 | Lord Charles Beresford continued his campaign against the Admiralty that had originated in his personal feud with Admiral Fisher , and he made the most of Churchill 's unhappy relations with his admirals . |
| 26 | Short trousers , grubby knees , odd socks , and a pair of indescribable shoes that had belonged to his elder brother , completed the picture of a happy child , unlikely to be able to spell simple words like ‘ class ’ for a very long time . |
| 27 | There were still odd things round the house that had belonged to his father , but which were now Stuart 's . |
| 28 | The warmth from the hot pipe that skirted a side wall billowed across Holly 's face , rubbed at the cold that had settled under his tunic and shirt as he had walked from the compound with the trustie from Internal Order . |
| 29 | On the other hand , in the Spycatcher case Lord Goff decided that Peter Wright had a lifelong duty not to disclose confidential information that had come into his possession as an officer of the Secret Service . |
| 30 | He was n't just pontificating , he was n't just starting out things he thought about , he and and , ideas that had come into his head , he spoke as one who had authority and because of that they heard him . |