Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had also made himself the leading authority on fossil fish , taking over Cuvier 's work . |
| 2 | He had also realised what the French wanted from him : the truth about the Prince of Wales ' former mistress , now immured at Godstowe . |
| 3 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 4 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had simply given her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 6 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 7 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 8 | The council leader , Coun. John Williams , said he had yet to decide what the Labour group policy would be . |