Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
2 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
3 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
4 | Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began . |
5 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
6 | He had travelled aboard the same flight from Helsinki but in Economy Class , not an experience the Vice President of Information and Planning had enjoyed . |
7 | He had hit on the same theme in Jubilate Agno , B404 : |
8 | If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten . |
9 | Next morning , after a 9.15 breakfast , he discussed with Jones his ideas for a speech he had to make in a few weeks ' time at a Literary Fund dinner . |
10 | Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " . |
11 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
14 | Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) . |
15 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
16 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
17 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |