Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he 'd fixed up with the travel agency which handled Dalgety 's bookings for you to join him at all the Grands Prix . ’ |
| 2 | Apparently he 'd rung up for the ride . |
| 3 | She realized by his use of the word ‘ they ’ instead of ‘ we ’ that he was not a native of the place , and wondered how long he had lived there . |
| 4 | For how long he had dwelt there Allen was unable to find out . |
| 5 | The talk at the Dôme and Rotonde struck him as far more amusing than his lessons at the Lycée and before long he had dropped out of school . |
| 6 | If only he had called out before the door slammed shut ! |
| 7 | If only he had moved earlier . |
| 8 | If only he had known just how much he had already given . |
| 9 | If only he had known enough , he might have come privately and hoped for a reward ! |
| 10 | Perhaps he had gone straight to bed . |
| 11 | Perhaps he had gone along with it , and if he had , for whatever reason , agreed to the fiction , was it her place to undo it ? |
| 12 | He had been so determined to be ungullible , city-wise that perhaps he had gone too far in the other direction , and so read a threat in everything the big city had to offer . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 14 | Perhaps he had drunk too much at the Grapes . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had forgotten how to speak . |
| 16 | Not that he had n't tried , perhaps he had tried too often . |
| 17 | Perhaps he had slept here before . |
| 18 | Perhaps he had expected too much of him ? |
| 19 | As she left the room , it struck Loretta that he was being uncharacteristically quiet ; perhaps he had had too much to drink ? |
| 20 | She thought that perhaps he had had enough by now . |
| 21 | The sound that had made O look up came from a man who was sitting on the floor , leaning against the wall of the tunnel , looking not much like a beggar , but just someone worn out ; perhaps he had collapsed there and was resting . |
| 22 | Perhaps he 'd gone down to Somerset to see his mother . |
| 23 | Adam went on looking at her , and her heart sank ; perhaps he 'd gone too far away in his mind to come back now . |
| 24 | Perhaps he 'd known before , as soon as the phone rang . |
| 25 | Obviously he 'd gone out for cigarettes , or lunch — or perhaps — it was a sudden exciting hope — he was upstairs in John 's room , waiting for me there . |
| 26 | Too obviously he had lunched well on a dish laced with garlic , and he kept twirling his dark moustache , of which he seemed inordinately proud , while in halting French I explained my purpose . |
| 27 | So he had moved away from Jewtown to a considerably larger and more imposing semi-detached house in Blackrock — a suburb which , though no more than a mile beyond Celtic Crescent , was undeniably middle-class and rising . |
| 28 | So he had noticed how close Mitch and Ana were getting . |
| 29 | Or so he had kept on telling her . |
| 30 | So he had driven down from Edinburgh to intercept the train . |