Example sentences of "his [noun sg] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister had been restless and Dunbar had had to fight queues of people at the bar to buy drinks in the interval . |
| 2 | Nick had landed the job of editor and when he had told Harriet about it his enthusiasm had been infectious . |
| 3 | Of all his kinsmen , it was hardly surprising that his favourite had been gay , great-uncle Edward — his father 's bête noire . |
| 4 | Zapata strenuously denied opposition claims that his election had been fraudulent and stated that he was standing down to avoid " endangering the possibilities of peaceful coexistence " with rival political forces in the state . |
| 5 | He should not have been ashamed of his grandfather , of course , but his upbringing had been pitiful , constantly on the march from one to another of a whole series of ‘ uncles ’ — there were several between his father and the solicitor — so that he had nothing stable in his life at all . |
| 6 | Like many others , Schellenberg had seen it as employment , not as a political ideal , and his rise had been astonishing . |
| 7 | His hair had been white for as long as Burun could remember , but this was the first time his age had seemed to affect his behaviour . |
| 8 | Richard Rowntree , the chairman of the bench , told Mr Smith that if they had taken the view that the ill treatment of his stock had been deliberate , their decision would have been a lot different . |
| 9 | His coaching had been minimal , but all his strokes came from the textbook and he was never once known to play across the line . |
| 10 | Now , his car had been unscathed in the wee knock but he felt aggrieved that she had not checked . |
| 11 | The judge told Cranog Jones that his plan had been ingenious , but warned him that as a magistrate , he would have a hard time in prison . |
| 12 | Since the building of that dam his terrain had been harsh , brutal and bad . |
| 13 | He had been so blinded by his need for her light that he had failed to see how deeply he stood in her shadow , and his work had been frustrated thereby . |
| 14 | His fall had been fast and far , but it had been almost worthwhile , almost , and one day , one distant day , there was the dream of a flight beyond the borders of the Motherland . |
| 15 | During the war his home had been far away from bombs and at the end of it his father had come safely back . |
| 16 | Collor reportedly ordered Eduardo Texeira , appointed as the new head of the state-owned company Brazilian Petroleum Corporation ( PETROBRAS ) , to investigate allegations by his predecessor Luis Otávio da Motta Veiga that his dismissal had been corrupt . |
| 17 | His laughter had been natural to him , but this , this removed tranquillity , was more so . |
| 18 | Kirkman Finlay who was represented by an advocate at the district meeting complained that his opponent had been guilty of bribery and corruption and had thereby disqualified himself . |
| 19 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 20 | Then , too , his reaction had been unexpected . |
| 21 | Lucien knew his imitation had been perfect . |
| 22 | His pa had been worried , too . |
| 23 | At her elbow the candle burned with a steady flame , which was more than that perspiring fool of a doctor with letters after his name had been able to say about the Colonel 's heart . |
| 24 | The last thing she wanted to do was to encourage their flaring in response to an incautious comment , especially as , since he had got his own way about her not flying out that day , his behaviour had been impeccable . |
| 25 | Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way . |
| 26 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 27 | It was in that ugly repository of polished pine , acoustic tiles and garish , sentimental stained glass that he and his wife had been married , and in a flat in the rectory , living above the parish priest , that they had made their first home . |
| 28 | Mr Parfitt 's brother , Phil , confirmed that his wife had been worried by cancer scares — but had been given the all-clear . |
| 29 | He was pleased that he and his wife had been able to talk to the doctor but he was still not sure that he understood about either the X-rays of his bowel or the surgery which might be necessary . |
| 30 | His Court had been notorious not only for its exclusivity and lack of responsiveness to the public at large but also , as experienced by those who frequented it , for its tedium . |