Example sentences of "he had [prep] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 2 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 3 | Unlikely though it seemed to students and friends of the scholarly and bespectacled professor , he had at this period worked for what became SOE ( a kind of work for which his precision of mind , excellent memory and linguistic ability pre-eminently qualified him : he contrived among other exploits to smuggle the leader of the Bulgarian Peasant Party out of the country into Turkey in a truck ) . |
| 4 | Thirdly , again helped by circumstances , he had to some extent ended the hereditary principle as applying to the emperorship . |
| 5 | It also came from the clergy , who disliked the White Revolution generally , and from the liberals whose thunder he had to some extent stolen . |
| 6 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 7 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 8 | In seeking to understand and present the work of others in his Report on the Theory of Numbers , he had in many cases progressed far beyond them . |
| 9 | But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law . |
| 10 | It was then that I conceived the idea of getting a few fans that he had in those days to walk around the television company with placards saying Lets Be Fair To The Long Hairs , which did get press publicity , and in the end , the producer relented and he did his first TV show . ’ |
| 11 | That he had in some way taken her aback was as obvious to him as the reason was obscure . |