Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had travelled in Italy and Sicily , where he had studied the Greek temples , he became the surveyor to two city companies , and was a London District Surveyor . |
| 2 | The creator of the evening 's culinary triumphs emerged unshaven from a cavernous kitchen where he had spent the entire day cooking over a wood fire . |
| 3 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 4 | Major General Sir William Dornberg received the pencil-written despatch in the town hall at Mons which he had made into his headquarters , and where he had transformed the ancient council chamber into his map room . |
| 5 | Glover was making his way back from the start , where he had coaxed the temperamental Rambo 's Hall into his stall , and his swelling excitement as he listened to a radio commentary was confined in a swaying Land Rover . |
| 6 | Legality was important to the President because , although he had won the presidential election , he did not have a majority in Congress . |
| 7 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 8 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 9 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 10 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 11 | His stereotyped image of the single missionary lady was overturned with one stupendous " Wow " once he had met the outgoing Australian with the warm smile and alert interest in everything around her . |
| 12 | But to the right the level sea stretched far away — an ocean on which a westbound mariner sticking to this latitude need not ( once he had cleared the complicated coastline of Panama itself ) strike any land whatsoever until he met the Philippine Islands of Mindanao , Palawan and the skerries of the Sulu Sea , 13,000 miles away . |
| 13 | Once he had returned the white card , a client 's name , address and phone number were Processed into a lead , which would then be given out to a dealer . |
| 14 | Guppy could become bankrupt over the affair , and no profit would remain once he had provided the remaining cash to the court . |
| 15 | Once he had passed the southern limit of the fence , Angel One planned to angle his run in towards the highway . |
| 16 | ONCE he had left the modern flat where he lived with his father in Johannesburg , John Cranko always lived in old houses . |
| 17 | They began a three-year love affair , but were not to marry until he had enjoyed the full fruits of the fame that was just around the corner . |
| 18 | His publishers had been smoothly charming and undoubtedly a little surprised to find their backwoods author a careful , quite business-like man in a town suit , who would not sign anything until he had read the small print several times and understood it thoroughly . |
| 19 | He fought to hold it down , getting up and pacing about , counting strides aloud in the English tongue , forcing himself to observe minutely every crack and cobweb , every light pattern and shadow texture over the rough brick walls and polished leather of bridles and saddles , until he 'd mastered the terrible memory . |
| 20 | When he took up his pen again , it was as if he had assumed the annihilating impact of that wave : his books , he said , ‘ must be read as if they were the books of a dead man ’ . |
| 21 | It was as if he had mounted the wrong protest in the wrong place , or was simply the wrong person to do it . |
| 22 | READING Barrie Clement 's diatribe ( 6 October ) under the heading ‘ Union law policy remains unclear ’ , I wondered if he had attended the same Labour Party Conference as I did . |
| 23 | After two weeks he had begun to wonder if he had done the right thing . |
| 24 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 25 | If he had answered the right question in the wrong way , his decision would be binding . |
| 26 | If he had answered the wrong question , his decision would be a nullity . |
| 27 | ‘ I wonder what the Reverend Henry Solly would have said if he had seen the tremendous progress made by the Union over the past few years . ’ |
| 28 | A stern note from the IBA advised him that if he had read the small print on his contract , he would have realised he had no right to . |
| 29 | Even if he had used the same words , his non verbal communication in the two situations would have conveyed a very different attitude . |
| 30 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |