Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
2 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
3 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
4 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
5 | Somehow — it did not seem diplomatic to enquire too deeply just how — he had missed her at the arranged spot . |
6 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
7 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
8 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
9 | When one of the witnesses pointed out that the testator had not signed the will the testator replied that he had signed it at the top and that it could be signed anywhere . |
10 | Often , after he had left her at the door of her apartment , he would ridicule himself An old man with a Pygmalion fantasy . |
11 | The millionaire proudly handed the superintendent the cage and , while winding up the clockwork mechanism , described how he had bought it at a country auction in Warwickshire . |
12 | Having , as a small boy , saved his pocket money to buy his mother a scarf for her birthday , he was sharply told to take it back : he had bought it at a Liberal shop . |
13 | This was the strangest thing that had ever happened to her ; he had hurt her at the beginning , but now that was gone . |