Example sentences of "he had [prep] [det] [noun] " 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 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 5 | He had been able to join in mathematical discussion with the English he had at that time . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | These days he felt happier than he had at any time in his life . |
| 8 | Bigwig was racing back across the field , looking more agitated than he had at any time since the encounter with Captain Holly . |
| 9 | A little over an hour later , Harry felt more in control of events than he had at any time since Heather 's disappearance . |
| 10 | He had always considered Sir John a portly , self-indulgent toper , but at this moment the coroner seemed more at ease , sword and dagger in his hands , fighting for his life , than he had at any time since they had met . |
| 11 | Thirdly , again helped by circumstances , he had to some extent ended the hereditary principle as applying to the emperorship . |
| 12 | It also came from the clergy , who disliked the White Revolution generally , and from the liberals whose thunder he had to some extent stolen . |
| 13 | He do n't have no tower himself , but Khor said he had like some socket on his finger , just plugs it in to some surgery-box and the machine fixes you up real good . |
| 14 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 15 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 16 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had in that capacity been supplied with a copy of Scott 's report , which was regarded by the government , and particularly by the Foreign Office , as strictly confidential . |
| 19 | Exactly what powers he had in that direction was not clear , but the Board did promise that no former member of the staff of an undertaking taken over would suffer any reduction of salary or conditions of service . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | He had in those days of innocence seen the Edition as a finite task that would lead on to other things . |
| 23 | That he had in some way taken her aback was as obvious to him as the reason was obscure . |
| 24 | I think he might have tried , thinking that he must fulfill this sexual desire that he had in some way . |