Example sentences of "had [verb] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ . |
| 2 | Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor . |
| 3 | Clavell says that King Rat had freed him to write about the Far East . |
| 4 | He was sure no one had noticed him talking to the journalist . |
| 5 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 6 | There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered . |
| 7 | She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice . |
| 8 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 9 | Charlotte had seen him turn in the doorway to speak to Mrs Lane , whose placid smile indicated that she knew and welcomed him . |
| 10 | That moment when she had seen him standing on the jetty , a tall dark figure against the bright sun , would remain locked in her memory foever . |
| 11 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 12 | If only she had seen him come into the shop — but she always seemed to miss him . |
| 13 | It was about six feet from him when it went off , to which distance , and the fact that Peter 's kick had made him roll into the water at the minute of explosion , he owed his mangled survival . |
| 14 | Everything else he had collected he abandoned in the street drain . |
| 15 | Several times , Gedge had persuaded him to stay with the band when he had become disgruntled and ‘ warnings ’ had not been given because he ostensibly wanted to leave anyway . |
| 16 | Scott had watched him get into the rocket many times and he dreamed about going with Space Man . |
| 17 | She had watched him go amongst the caskets , then lift one of the lids , peering inside . |
| 18 | These last few months of building a new identity had enabled him to relax for the first time in years . |
| 19 | He has changed his mind , belittling the flimsy premise which had led him to stay in the city . |
| 20 | She had forced him to live against the grain of his own nature which was weak and pleasure-loving and stubborn with it , so that when she beat him for laziness or lying , he became more determinedly idle and sullen . |
| 21 | In the war the Germans had forced him to live in the village . |
| 22 | After intensive questioning North also conceded that Poindexter had ordered him to lie to the intelligence committee of House of Representatives when he appeared before it on Aug. 6 , 1986 , as part of its investigation into the affair . |
| 23 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 24 | Needham had previously become Rector of Claughton in Lancashire , and because he could not be both Rector there and Master in Stockport simultaneously the Goldsmiths had required him to resign from the School . |
| 25 | He could hardly have forgotten that five years earlier the authorities had required him to register under the Aliens Restriction Order . |