Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1929 , he had again returned to a familiar theme , stressing that , while the establishment of a ‘ National Preservation ’ body was worthwhile , it was especially important that its attention be directed not merely to the countryside . |
| 2 | Suzuki admitted that he had received 10,000,000 yen from Abe which he had neither declared as a political donation nor as personal income , and Shiozaki acknowledged the receipt of 20,000,000 yen but denied that it had been a bribe . |
| 3 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 4 | But he had also hinted at a sexual relationship with one of his American university professors , and with the editor of a certain American music magazine , with whom he had spent a vacation in Hairi . |
| 5 | Looking up , he saw the astral form of Gunda , a shepherdess he had attempted to seduce and then killed , with Wolfhead , the faithful boarhound he had also killed in a fury . |
| 6 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 7 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 8 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 9 | He had not shaved for a day or two , and there was fair stubble on his cheeks and jaw . |
| 10 | Indeed , he might be within the sections and subject to orders even though he had not entered into a transaction with the company or debtor at all . |
| 11 | Wijeratne 's other enemies included the Janata Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) , the Sinhalese group whose southern-based insurgency he had effectively destroyed in a ferocious campaign in late 1989 [ see pp. 37042 and 37353 ] , and the gambling industry , a casino operator having been deported in February . |
| 12 | Although he relished playing for Rangers , the team he had fervently supported as a youth , Fleck fell foul of the club 's increasingly strict discipline . |
| 13 | He was gazing forwards and he looked as if he had just stepped on a drawing-pin . |
| 14 | He had just escaped from a ship at Sharpness docks . |
| 15 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 16 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |
| 17 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 18 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 19 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 20 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 21 | A MANIAC slashed a teenage girl 's throat with a knife he had just bought at a packed car boot sale . |
| 22 | There was , anyway , an atmosphere in this shop , an unpleasant feeling , as if he had just walked through a gateway into a world parallel to our own , where huge and unpleasant moral choices are offered , fought over and discussed . |
| 23 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 24 | He had just materialized in a certain top-secret room in the bad company of Dee and Kelley . |
| 25 | He had just qualified as a surgeon . |
| 26 | He was , in his way , as redundant as the steam engines whose numbers he had avidly collected as a boy in Swindon . |
| 27 | He wants to use the battle field , which he had previously described as a place of ‘ ungracious clamours ’ , to purge his anger and hurt . |
| 28 | He had simply run in a direct line from their holes to his own , passing on his way through the narrow strip of woodland that lay between . |
| 29 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 30 | Well , he had n't gone with a stranger . |