Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 2 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 3 | He said he 'd played a few years before but was very out of practice |
| 4 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 5 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 6 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 7 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 8 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 9 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 10 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 11 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 12 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 13 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 14 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 15 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 16 | He had made a few calls , but could n't have chosen a worse time to be setting up a casual liaison . |
| 17 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 18 | A man of various talents , he had run a ramshackle ship-chandlers establishment at Cyclops Wharf on the West Ferry Road . |
| 19 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 20 | The door opened quietly ; and stepping into the kitchen , as he had stepped a thousand times before , came Jake . |
| 21 | Aubrey , watching the three excitedly making plans , was sensitive enough not to mention the news he had received a few days ' earlier from his mother — that Madeleine and Dunbar were coming home with the regiment . |
| 22 | Mark , whom I have already quoted in my discussion of the lab work , was a final-year student at A who , although he had obtained A level grades of AAAB , eventually failed his degree . |
| 23 | ‘ Cheers , ’ said Bunny , pocketing the mat as he had done a million others , though the phone numbers on them were not usually trombonists . |
| 24 | When he was killed he had had a hundred pounds on him . |
| 25 | When he had had a few drinks , though not otherwise , Peter talked about how he knew he ought to have the test to find out if he was HIV negative , as he hoped , as he desperately hoped , but he had not had it yet . |
| 26 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 27 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |
| 28 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 29 | To preserve her anonymity they had agreed on the pseudonym Vesta , and if at first he had thought a few days in the East End might dampen her enthusiasm he had been proved wrong . |
| 30 | On the other hand , Lindsey found herself thinking , if Niall smiled at her the way he had smiled a few minutes ago , the dear lady probably would n't even need an anaesthetic ! |