Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father related that , when he was in the panel advising the consul Ducenius Varus , his own view prevailed , when Otacilius Catulus had instituted his daughter sole heir , left a legacy of two hundred to a freedman , and requested that he should make that over to his concubine ; and then the freedman had predeceased the testator , and the legacy to him had remained with the daughter ; that the daughter should be compelled to make over the trust to the concubine . |
| 2 | Agnes smiled at the old warrior , and then at Husband : by now , her anger at him had distilled to the warming spirit of pure hatred . |
| 3 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 4 | The boldness of her eyes when she had greeted him had spoken of no social fear . |
| 5 | He had broken through the picquet lines . |
| 6 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 7 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 8 | Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists . |
| 9 | The Salinas government had hailed his arrest as a blow against corruption , but there was widespread speculation that Galicia was in fact being targeted because he had broken with the PRI during the 1988 elections . |
| 10 | In other words , he had broken with the model after their blink-of-the-eye affair . |
| 11 | He had grown into a slim blond young man , slightly ashen from his long hospital hours , a little frenzied and erratic in his gestures which spoke of bouts of sleeplessness and an adrenaline-fuelled energy . |
| 12 | At least he had grown beyond the need to despise people in order to give himself stature . |
| 13 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 14 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |
| 15 | He had pointed along the bank to where an elderly Arab was standing in the water bent over the gunwale of a small , crazily-built boat . |
| 16 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 17 | He had stayed with the couple until 4pm . |
| 18 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 19 | He had stayed with the launcher , calmly perfecting his adjustment of the aim . |
| 20 | He had insisted on going with her but Carrie was beginning to wish he had stayed in the shop . |
| 21 | He had stayed in the car . |
| 22 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 23 | Among the latter was Imelda Marcos whom he had defeated in the election , and who , together with her husband President Ferdinand Marcos , had been forced from office in 1986 by a popular campaign in which Ramos had played a key role . |
| 24 | Clinton received another boost when , on July 8 , he was publicly endorsed by Paul Tsongas whom he had defeated in the primary contests . |
| 25 | He had blazed like a comet across Vietnam and the light did as much as anything in 1951 to dazzle the US and to persuade them that their assessments were right , that it was the right war and that , on certain conditions , it might also be a winnable war . |
| 26 | On the phone , he had sounded in a bad way . |
| 27 | He had boxed during a brief spell in the army , and he enjoyed golfing and playing poker ; he also read thrillers and was a film addict . |
| 28 | Since sobering up after Christmas he had degenerated into a deep depression . |
| 29 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 30 | He kept his firm , muscular body in shape with an hour 's run every morning followed by a demanding work-out in the small shed adjacent to the cabin which he had converted into a mini-gym soon after arriving from New York . |