Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |
| 2 | He had written it under the supervision of James Blackadder , which had been a discouraging experience . |
| 3 | He told his teacher he had lost it on the way to school , and Mr Watson promptly rapped his knuckles with a ruler for his carelessness . |
| 4 | He had seen it from the outside . |
| 5 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 6 | He had pledged it to the fans , but once again could n't deliver . |
| 7 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 8 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 9 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 10 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 11 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 12 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 13 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 14 | He had done it in the street in front of everyone . |
| 15 | Drew had denied that the clothing had been cleaned there and insisted that he had sent it to the cleaners in Swansea and Rochdale previously on the tour . |
| 16 | He had taken it to the President , and he had liked it , and he had signed it . |
| 17 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 18 | I waited till he had set it by the candle . |
| 19 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 20 | She wondered whether he had mentioned it to the Inspector privately . |
| 21 | He had put it on the draining board . |
| 22 | He had occupied it from the creation of the new Czechoslovakia in 1990 until his resignation last year over the sheering off of Slovakia . |
| 23 | When his caddie had fished the ball out and he had dropped it behind the stream he was facing his fifth shot . |
| 24 | He had addressed it to the Chief Accountant personally , and a letter so addressed , in his distinctive handwriting would stand out a mile when the letters were spread across Steve Pyle 's desk . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had brought it in the hope of finding a second-hand saddle of his own . |
| 27 | He had left it on the passenger seat , where it lay , legs in the air , headless rump deep in the upholstery . |
| 28 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 29 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 30 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |