Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 2 | He had broken through the picquet lines . |
| 3 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 4 | In other words , he had broken with the model after their blink-of-the-eye affair . |
| 5 | At least he had grown beyond the need to despise people in order to give himself stature . |
| 6 | He had pointed along the bank to where an elderly Arab was standing in the water bent over the gunwale of a small , crazily-built boat . |
| 7 | He had stayed with the launcher , calmly perfecting his adjustment of the aim . |
| 8 | He had stayed with the couple until 4pm . |
| 9 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 10 | He had stayed in the car . |
| 11 | He had insisted on going with her but Carrie was beginning to wish he had stayed in the shop . |
| 12 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 13 | Among the latter was Imelda Marcos whom he had defeated in the election , and who , together with her husband President Ferdinand Marcos , had been forced from office in 1986 by a popular campaign in which Ramos had played a key role . |
| 14 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 15 | But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] . |
| 16 | He had to go through the churchyard to reach the back lane so he counted the houses to be sure of identifying Alfred 's door . |
| 17 | He had to go through the shopping centre to get there , and the market-place . |
| 18 | Still , he had until two o'clock before he had to go into the College — today was the day he did evening teaching . |
| 19 | Part way through that exercise he had to go into the storeroom to check a detail regarding the number of the machine which had been selected . |
| 20 | Those were the last words he said to me , apart from when he woke up and said he had to go to the toilet but you do n't count that , do you . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party . |
| 22 | Then , obviously wanting to leave us alone , our friend said that he had to go to the village of Lalatta for a short time ; he would be back in twenty minutes , by which time I would have to start making my way back to Lagrimone . |
| 23 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 24 | Daddy wanted that farm very badly but they did n't have much money between them , so he had to go to the bank and ask for a loan . |
| 25 | But if he was going to carry the coffin he had to go to the funeral service , so the Church had him by the balls again , as it had , more or less , since he was born . |
| 26 | Now he knew what he had to do : he had to go to the Unification Church and find out what , if anything , was going on there . |
| 27 | We had to take the photographs , he had to go on the pitch , did n't he ? |
| 28 | That 's punishment , yeah , they would either do that or there was one driver down there he broke a wheel , that were n't his fault , and he had to pay for it , he had to go in the office like I did once . |
| 29 | The prize-giving was supposed to be compèred by Fatty Harris , but having taken so many nips while he was commentating , he had to pop into the Portaloo immediately after the match . |
| 30 | In view of the weight he had given to the idea of an aristocratic plot , Edward found his flat reaction to the name of Hamilton quite puzzling . |