Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he had [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |
| 2 | He thought her pain was physical , of course , and his voice was only rendered husky by the sexual experience he had just had . |
| 3 | When he had learnt that Miss Alicia Lockwood , whom he considered one of the most charming and fascinating old dears he had ever met , had been mad enough to leave him half her beautiful and fantastic house , for one wild and quixotic moment Matthew had thought of refusing the legacy . |
| 4 | At this range the flaws that reduced him to humanity , and a fairly limited humanity at that , were plain to be seen : the stubble of coarse reddish beard he had n't bothered to shave , the roughness of his weathered skin over the immaculate but brutal bones , the inlaid indifference of the blue eyes . |
| 5 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
| 6 | But he had crossed the road — actually crossed the road — to tell her he thought it was the most interesting interview he had ever heard on the Parker Show . |
| 7 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 8 | Looking up , he saw the astral form of Gunda , a shepherdess he had attempted to seduce and then killed , with Wolfhead , the faithful boarhound he had also killed in a fury . |
| 9 | Until this moment he had n't remembered that he had actually been here before . |
| 10 | Then he moves in , for example to reveal that the young hero-murderer , once the deed was done , had a completely new experience ‘ of infinite loneliness and estrangement ’ ; and that this experience ‘ was most agonising in that it was a sensation rather than knowledge or intellectual understanding , a direct sensation , the most painful sensation he had ever experienced in his life . ’ |
| 11 | On this occasion he had not allowed for his four-year-old son Robert , who piped up : ‘ The vestry is where Daddy does the toilet before the service . ’ |
| 12 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 13 | When he left his home this morning he had not expected to be carrying Lestrade of the Yard and Sherlock Holmes , and was by no means certain he was ready for this responsibility . |
| 14 | He only knew that Liza was the most sexually exciting woman he had ever come across and that , should they meet again , neither would be able to hold back from a passion which was so powerful it could only lead to trouble , about which his wife might come to hear . |
| 15 | Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before . |
| 16 | A NUCLEAR test veteran has been reunited with two Fijian pals he had not seen since the notorious Christmas Island atomic bomb tests 34 years ago . |
| 17 | He said he was one of the most unpleasant people he had ever met . |
| 18 | ‘ On his second visit he told her that she was like the favourite aunt he had never had , or better still — Americans make such wonderful parents , will you not adopt me , please ? |
| 19 | For some reason he had just remembered poor old Eddy Moulton . |
| 20 | Really , Muggeridge was one of the worst and most transparent liars he had ever encountered . |
| 21 | Tolkien 's epic is more like a romantic reflection of pre-1914 British life and of those models of manly virtue he had once witnessed and cherished , it seems likely , in the grim camaraderie of the trenches in the First World War . |
| 22 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 23 | A Second Lieutenant Makepeace took his place behind Charlie 's trench , another officer he had never met . |
| 24 | Escaping from prisons was one of his specialities , but this time he had conspicuously failed . |
| 25 | He handed Eleanor 's book to a moralistic old bag he had once done a writing workshop with . |
| 26 | The first time she discovered the awful mess he had deliberately left in the kitchen , Beth was determined she would not be used as a skivvy . |
| 27 | His dissertation was nearly finished but for the last six months he had almost stopped work on it and had devoted himself entirely to his passion , a crusade against nuclear power . |
| 28 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 29 | The Prophet sprinted from the alley exit scant seconds before the first of the police cars roared out of the fog and screeched to a halt at the dark gap he had just left . |
| 30 | Raper was jailed for two years and Allen for six months , Sir Nicolas saying it was one of the most serious contempts he had ever come across . |