Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [noun] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness . |
| 2 | At fourteen , Tony got on well with his peer group and had settled quickly into the assessment centre routine . |
| 3 | While Paddy Mayne and his men were busily raiding , Stirling had finally succumbed to his desert sores and had been hospitalized in Cairo . |
| 4 | He gave a fascinating slide show on climbing in his home country that had the Britishers gasping as each idyllic situation appeared on the screen . |
| 5 | After moving into a suburban villa in Norwich he fell behind with his mortgage payments and had to turn to his new club for a £19,000 loan to prevent the building society from repossessing his home . |
| 6 | He 'd had a couple of sessions with his union rep and had been told not to worry , it was just a way of filling some quota ; if anything , his job was probably more secure now than it had been before . |
| 7 | Rumours of a social evening at the Hall with the entire village being invited had n't exactly dispelled all worry , since it was his summer parties that had made him so unpopular around the area in the first place . |
| 8 | A piece of shrapnel had hit his cap badge and had penetrated the front of his skull . |
| 9 | On April 25 , 1989 , the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court ordered the release of 32 members of the Youth Congress ( I ) who were jailed for contempt after a demonstration in the State Assembly in March following remarks allegedly made by the General Secretary of the ruling Telugu Desam Party , Ashok Gajapathi Raju , that Rajiv Gandhi was responsible for the death of his mother Indira and had benefited from it . |
| 10 | Mr Roache , of Wilmslow , Cheshire , had told the court he was ‘ devastated and humiliated ’ by a November 1990 article which said he was smug and self-satisfied like his screen character and had been universally nicknamed ‘ BKB — Boring Ken Barlow , ’ a reputation he had earned both on and off the screen . |
| 11 | It was , therefore , unfair to dismiss Winsper after his conviction for dangerous driving because the court had refrained from suspending his driving licence and had imposed a fine of only £20 . |