Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rhoda he had also known for some time . |
| 2 | Even in prison he had not felt like this . |
| 3 | He had played so extraordinarily fair with her the night before , he reflected , contentedly , that it was as if he had not played at all . |
| 4 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 5 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 6 | Jeffrey , who had been the youngest MP , but not for long , and the deputy chairman of the Party for a little while , considered that he had not done at all badly . |
| 7 | One he had not seen at all , the fourth , who had stayed at the hideout ready to kill Simon Cormack on a phone call , or a no-show by his colleagues by a certain time . |
| 8 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 9 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 10 | No , that was untrue : he had not tried at all . |
| 11 | Shultz swiftly put out word , through a spokesman , that he had not known at all . |
| 12 | We should add that after the hearing was completed we received a letter from Mr. Persaud inviting us to reopen the hearing to allow him to address additional points to us which he had not mentioned at all in his opening submissions to us or in his reply . |
| 13 | He had just embarked on another huge canvas Solomon . |
| 14 | Dunlop appeared to be catching Moodie and he had already put in that record lap of 115.62mph on lap three , but Moodie always had matters well in hand . |
| 15 | The new season again brought some work on opera-ballet , with a new production of Die Fledermaus at Sadler 's Wells on 10 January 1949 giving a bigger opportunity than he had yet enjoyed in that genre . |
| 16 | He puzzled over that , but he kept remembering the older man 's face , and the sadness in it , and the awful fact that he had n't retaliated in any way . |
| 17 | It would , she concluded unhappily , have been better for her own peace of mind if he had n't gone to such extreme lengths , but as he had … |
| 18 | He had n't bargained for this . |
| 19 | He had n't appeared for this scene : none of the actors had . |
| 20 | She had told him where she was booked , and at that stage he had n't reacted at all . |
| 21 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 22 | Since his wife 's , Rachel 's , death he had n't joined in any of the social activities in Little Weirwold . |
| 23 | It was almost eleven before he appeared , looking as though he had n't slept at all . |
| 24 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 25 | If he had n't died of that heart attack , he 'd have been a mental wreck . ’ |
| 26 | If only he had n't sold to that dreadful man , you would n't be having such a miserable time . ’ |
| 27 | He had n't talked to any women down here . |
| 28 | ‘ He had n't bled at all . |
| 29 | When he had n't returned within half a hour Sarella sat up , shaking her head to clear it and looking round his room with gentle eyes . |
| 30 | It was odd that he had n't thought about that but immediately it came back to him , the name of the exchange , though Hilbert 's phone had been disconnected . |