Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had stayed long enough to see the first stage of the counter-inflation policy accepted and the clash and confrontation of two years earlier replaced by a new partnership . |
| 2 | He had hoped then also to find a publisher who was prepared to offer a comparable insight into the operation of an academic publishing house , but no publisher had accepted the brief , possibly for fear of revealing intimate company details . |
| 3 | If he had lived long enough to see Henry crowned king at Westminster he would have been able to carry out his plan of leaving Anjou to his second son Geoffrey . |
| 4 | The morning after he had left his swimming things in the stolen Mini , when he had gone up early to see old Bones , he had found Nails fast asleep in the straw in the chestnut mare 's box . |
| 5 | The next place he tried , the loneliest , was the rear turret , and that was once he had fathomed out how to work the heating system . |
| 6 | Ten minutes later he had calmed down sufficiently to make himself a cup of coffee and write himself a note to check Angela Morgan 's financial status . |
| 7 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 8 | Aggressive French patrols had prevented Sharpe getting close to the road a second time , but he had ridden near enough to see the dust clouds drifting away from the boots , hooves and wheels of an army on the march . |
| 9 | No , it was being here with Fen , knowing that they were alone in the house , remembering the measures he had taken once before to restore warmth to her body . |
| 10 | He had tried once already to talk to Nicholas about it , and had been kicked on the ankle by le Grant . |
| 11 | By the time he had worked out how to do this the riot had increased , and he was forced to fling open the door . |
| 12 | First Benny had turned her back on him in public and told him to go home without her after he had driven up especially to collect her . |
| 13 | Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died . |
| 14 | Seb knew he had failed yet again to break through the barrier of embarrassment that lay between them , and he did not know what to do about it . |