Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had planned to hold up the cash desk of an Oxford Street store . |
| 2 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 3 | Six inches of concrete , luckily not too dense , had been used to top off whatever he had used to fill in the excavation . |
| 4 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 5 | Mick Houghton , who also works for the fashionable label Blast First , was asked why he had agreed to take on The Wedding Present . |
| 6 | He had failed to win back the support of the MRP . |
| 7 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 8 | It was not only because of its convenient position and its many sheltering solitudes that he had chosen to watch out the night here . |