Example sentences of "[vb past] he had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McGown , 56 , was arrested after a parliamentary select committee reported he had admitted to having ‘ undertaken experiments without following laid down procedures to discover new ways of managing pain ’ . |
| 2 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 3 | The informer believed he had come under suspicion by his commanders but in fact the UDA/UFF leadership suspected another member of setting up the team . |
| 4 | The sight of them would be enough to give designers of air balls , gels and energy return systems the jitters , and although he has never measured his mileage , he estimated he had run at least 25,000 miles in them , and possibly more ! |
| 5 | It seemed he had left in the Casa Guidi a gun of which he was fond , taking only his hunting rifle in case he had the chance to go into the country to shoot rabbits . |
| 6 | As he passed quickly in front of the flame , Tallis got the hint of scratches on his body , and she imagined he had run through the tight thorn scrub between the village and his purloined domain upon the hill . |
| 7 | When Geoff came into the staff room on the alcohol problems unit I assumed he had come to the wrong ward . |
| 8 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 9 | ( In a letter to the Zoological Society written on 10 May and read out at the scientific meeting in London on 8 October , Gould described 19 new species , 13 of which he stated he had received from Dr Bynoe of the Beagle . ) |
| 10 | Lord Taylor said medical reports on Newton stated he had acted under acute stress while his emotional control and judgment were impaired and he was overcome by extreme anxiety and anger . |
| 11 | Reacher confirmed he had thought about possible replacements for Clough , and he admitted the job would probably go to a Forest insider . |
| 12 | When the peat-brown eyes fixed on hers again , their level gaze showed he had recovered from his astonishment at seeing her . |
| 13 | His face showed he had fought against passion and won , but did not like being the winner . |
| 14 | In the witness box , Steventon-Rogers claimed he had gone to the shed unarmed and grabbed the knife from a work bench when Mr Smith became angry and attacked him . |
| 15 | He claimed he had fallen on a bottle . |
| 16 | The story of King Bladud was first chronicled by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100–1154 ) in his Historia Regum Britanniae , a collection of mythology and history relating to the early history of Britain , which he claimed he had translated from a lost book of Breton legends . |
| 17 | Before Kenton & Co. opened he had travelled to Bosbury in Herefordshire to learn the craft of turned rush-seated chair-making from an old man , Philip Clissett , who had been bodging chairs since 1838 . |
| 18 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 19 | When officers arrived he had climbed into the back yard and the Volvo was seen to be on fire . |
| 20 | Before the offensive began he had tried in vain to impress this upon his superiors . |
| 21 | D'Aubigny sensed he had triumphed in this repartee and stood up , smiling kindly at us . |
| 22 | Grant sensed he had succeeded in needling his opponent and tensed himself in readiness . |
| 23 | I discovered he had come from South America . |
| 24 | In 1976 , the mother and step-father parted , and in 1990 , the woman heard he had parted from the mother of his daughter and wanted access . |
| 25 | When morning came , the Russian saw he had fallen from the ledge and was hanging upside down , his ice face and the rock face united in a carezza . |
| 26 | Spring and Wimbledon were still here , even if at times he felt he had landed in a foreign country . |
| 27 | But if Nicholas felt he had suffered at the hands of Celtic , then the suffering he experienced in London at the hands of the media was to force him out of the limelight and into a melancholic shell where scoring goals seemed harder than pulling Mother Theresa . |
| 28 | But having I could just tell councillor that the main problems which he felt he had to bring into this debate , the main problem is parking across the driveways in Harvey Goodwin Avenue , both the residents get very fed up because the parking . |
| 29 | He felt he had to speak to someone before he left for good . |
| 30 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |