Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd gone to get those tickets . |
| 2 | His throat was dry and he 'd forgotten to buy any candy . |
| 3 | But Mr laird said he 'd have stopped if he 'd had to use excessive force . |
| 4 | Is he I did n't know he 'd started doing advanced French . |
| 5 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 6 | When Picasso 's art became truly Cubist , in 1909 , he had begun to see solid forms in a new pictorial way , without the aid of linear or mathematical perspective . |
| 7 | He had begun to paint some portraits with one eye ‘ blind ’ , the other seeing . |
| 8 | Churchill had been the latest bone of contention , as he had begun to make public speeches which Chamberlain clearly found embarrassing . |
| 9 | He had begun to have wet dreams ; early in the morning , he would find his thighs soaked with semen beneath his nightshirt . |
| 10 | Jonathan told John Goldring , QC , prosecuting , that after her arrival he had begun to suffer dizzy spells and developed an addiction for chocolate . |
| 11 | He could believe some drunken classics student had run amok with a spray-can , but not that he had chanced to write two words of no classical significance beneath the window of the room where Harry happened to be staying . |
| 12 | Now he faces an uphill struggle to be fit in time for the British Clubman 's championship a series he had hoped to win this season . |
| 13 | He had wanted to do this job with John alone , but miners were professionals , and did n't like laymen interfering . |
| 14 | He had wanted to take each part ; eyes , skin , hair , bones , and he had wanted to scoop her up and hold her between his hands and never release her again . |
| 15 | Later , Koffigoh appeared on national television , saying that he had surrendered to avoid further bloodshed and announcing that he would form a government of national unity . |
| 16 | He had turned captured Russian officers and allowed them to ‘ escape ’ and make their way back to Russia where they became his agents . |
| 17 | He had stopped thinking lewd thoughts ; his mind was concentrated on what might be a perfect opportunity to obey Viktor Rakovsky 's order . |
| 18 | He had decided to remedy this inconvenience by robbing Pearman 's bakery . |
| 19 | He had planned to make this tour in January , but postponed it because of the Gulf war . |
| 20 | Although he had planned to start serious work in the autumn of 1946 , he was not able to do so . |
| 21 | So bloody hard he had fought to get those streets behind him . |
| 22 | He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said . |
| 23 | I got the impression that he had had to use this look rather a lot lately . |
| 24 | They still owed the grocer and Dad said he had had to pay another month 's rent . |
| 25 | He liked mechanical things and he was pleased that the chainsaw he had had to dismantle several times in the past seemed to run perfectly . |
| 26 | I suppo I suppose it was cheaper in a way because erm he found himself in the shop a lot more , he could n't afford the staff that he had , he had used to have two people working for him . |
| 27 | He wished he had thought to forge some names on them . |
| 28 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 29 | Now at that stage my Lord Mr er telephoned Mr on the afternoon of the twenty second of October and it 's his case that he explained what had happened at the meeting of the bank to him and er asked him again , in view of the fact that was having to sell him home , if it was possible to withdraw from the contract and it is the plaintiff 's case that he pointed out to Mr er quite definitely and quite clearly on the telephone , on this day , er that without er the funding that he had required to run this business er he could only see that this was going to be potentially disastrous for him er and once again , my Lord as he said this was a fairly heated conversation and er the plaintiff was told by Mr once again that there was no way out for him and he should now concentrate all his efforts on achieving completion , er and once again we were . |
| 30 | Whenever he had happened to notice devotional vids , he had presumed that the Space Marines recruited exceptional adult fighters , not … he swallowed his pride … not boys . |