Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
| 2 | If only he had paid more attention when he had had the chance . |
| 3 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 4 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 5 | By 3.45pm he had washed 45 cars — plus a passing police car and the fire engine ! |
| 6 | So he said get some money up together mum . |
| 7 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |
| 8 | So he had worn scruffy jeans and a Texas University T-shirt to his Downing Street breakfast . |
| 9 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 10 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 11 | It was irritating how easily he seemed to do several things at once . |
| 12 | THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury admitted yesterday he had made many mistakes during his two years in office . |
| 13 | A French headmaster , Mr Ernest Chenieres , who sparked a controversy by banning Islamic headscarves in the classroom , said yesterday he had received six death threats from Islamic extremists . |
| 14 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 15 | A lot of the jokes tended to go straight over his head , but there was always some good stuff about the management and more than once he 'd noticed senior people leaving with red faces before it ended . |
| 16 | The first foreign office librarian had been appointed in 1800 : when he retired a decade later he had organised this mass of papers into a systematic and usable collection . |
| 17 | But also he had imbibed long years of his wife 's punctuality and orderliness . |
| 18 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 19 | By now he had lost another ship . |
| 20 | By now he had become Principal Schools Commissioner for the Diocese , a post he continued to hold until August 1986 when he became Parish Priest at Yeadon . |
| 21 | So far he 'd got sympathetic countries to ‘ deplore ’ the malai act of aggression , which was not the same thing as condemning it , he said . |
| 22 | Today he 'd left that hotel . |
| 23 | It was almost as if he had found his raison d'être because beforehand he had shown little motivation to find conventional employment . |
| 24 | The man had n't grouted the tiles in properly he 'd used some sort of rough old cement and the water was just going through and staying there ! |
| 25 | They 'd given him some papers , and somebody had gone to the cashier for his money ( it made a nice fat bulge in his hip pocket ; he patted it now and again as he walked , just to make sure it was still there ) and eventually he 'd signed some papers . |
| 26 | Mrs. Sturgess was the hard working cleaner/caretaker of St. Martin 's Boys ' School whilst her husband worked in one of the many mineral water factories , unfortunately he had lost one eye in an industrial accident for which apparently no compensation was paid . |
| 27 | It was hard to believe that a few moments earlier he 'd aroused that snake-pit of desire inside her . |
| 28 | Some years earlier he 'd crashed another aircraft at nearby Chinnor but escaped without serious injury . |
| 29 | Some years earlier he 'd crashed another aircraft at nearby Chinnor but escaped without serious injury . |
| 30 | Three years earlier he had produced twenty illustrations , as well as endpapers and cover design for The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower , short stories for children which Paul published with Lehmann under the name ‘ Odo Cross ’ . |