Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devlin completes his lecture by returning to a question he had briefly considered at the beginning , and one which is central here ; that of the relationship between the Church and the moral order . |
| 2 | His three spinster daughters , whom he had not registered at the parish church in any way , were all baptised as adults at Badcox . |
| 3 | McKenzie had told him that he had not looked at the videos or magazines for some years before the assault and felt they played no part in his behaviour . |
| 4 | He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law . |
| 5 | He had previously stayed at the hotel on twelve or thirteen occasions , but had never before occupied a room on the ground floor . |
| 6 | The deceased replied that he had already signed at the top of the document . |
| 7 | Could n't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month ? |
| 8 | Yet , given time , he could roll back any given scene like a film and look at it again , stopping and starting the images at will , examining areas and details that he had n't noticed at the time . |
| 9 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 10 | He admitted that this was the first time he had really looked at the stoma and that he found the appearance and the smell rather offensive . |
| 11 | Not only had Rahner been attacked by Ottaviani a little while before , but he had long suffered at the hands of the Holy Office and his public rehabilitation could be seen as a snub for Ottaviani . |
| 12 | Holding the cow 's tail he leaned on the hairy back and , empty-eyed , blew smoke from the pipe which like most farmers at a cleansing he had prudently lit at the outset And of course , since the going was heavy , it just would happen that the job took much longer than usual . |