Example sentences of "[noun] he had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pleaded for mufakat , an Islamic term for the gotong-royong he had long advocated : consensus , harmony , unity . |
| 2 | He considered it more dangerous than any horse he had ever ridden , and drove it on a tight rein , seldom exceeding 35 m.p.h . |
| 3 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 4 | As a postgraduate physicist he had already had several requests for industrial consultancy advice resulting from his involvement in research into the behaviour of semiconductors , an area that was developing very fast . |
| 5 | An investigations unit would be set up in London , staffed by reputable heavyweight journalists he had already selected . |
| 6 | Quiss could feel himself starting to s " " eat already , despite having left most of his furs lying at the top of the steps he had just descended . |
| 7 | The fervent confirmation carried all the passionate intensity of the emotion he had always incited , but for a panicky moment Maria could n't remember why she hated him , and , when she did , the alien way in which her newly traitorous mind was functioning forced her to wonder why she needed to hate him . |
| 8 | Yes … ! ’ and felt him strip , the feel of his hair-roughened skin against hers driving her wild because now he was so real , so completely real , and so completely hers as they moved together naked , and she took the physical desire he expressed for her and pretended it was love , because it was the deepest display of emotion he had ever shown her . |
| 9 | If he had not taken possession of the goods after the theft he had not received them . |
| 10 | And more than once he lost his way because he was remembering the bluest eyes he had ever seen . |
| 11 | ANDY Chipling sat back and admired the computer programme he had just completed , bent down to switch on his printer at the powerpoint and stared in horror as a week 's toil disappeared off the screen . |
| 12 | He knew these people planned something terrible , although in his ignorance and confusion he had not grasped entirely what . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , if he 's so decent , ’ said Amiss , as he donned the pyjamas he had specially bought for the purposes of room-sharing , ‘ why does he allow us to be fed so badly ? ’ |
| 14 | Ed and a group of kids he had n't seen before were all slumped around a slick looking computer games console — all plugged into the machine via wires and electrodes . |
| 15 | This led to the murder of a shop owner and the next thing that happened , was , Imamu found himself in court on trial for a murder he had not committed . |
| 16 | In his mind he had obviously got fragments of things that he 'd heard and seen that day , there was an expression that was being called out , To arm citizens , because war had been declared . |
| 17 | But he had crossed the road — actually crossed the road — to tell her he thought it was the most interesting interview he had ever heard on the Parker Show . |
| 18 | The shops he had just examined stretched all the way back to the churchyard wall and their rear windows , set grimly amongst the headstones and mausoleums , had to be checked too . |
| 19 | He walked slowly up the familiar road admiring the shops he had once dreamed of owning . |
| 20 | He realised that in his discussions with Ranulf he had not mentioned old Martha 's death . |
| 21 | As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed . |
| 22 | As Sheila watched him go , she knew that in spite of the hurtful words he had just spoken she would always have a soft spot for the man . |
| 23 | He thought of her tongue , and tasted it ; he imagined her breasts , and she took his hands to them ; he wished she would speak , and she spoke ( oh , how she spoke ) , words he had n't dared admit he 'd wanted to hear . |
| 24 | He could tell she was upset by the words she used : bad words he had often heard from the men who worked with the pigs or came to the house to drink with Buddie in the music-room . |
| 25 | Her smart blue blazer sported a golden eagle surrounded by words he had never seen before . |
| 26 | Sometimes they were misty and abstract , especially when one talked intimately of the past , of subjects he had long forgotten — or wanted to forget — awakening memories — nightmares ? — from deep within . |
| 27 | It was Mr Spyros P. Skouras who let it be known that if Kazan did not testify helpfully , the pictures he had just made might never appear and he would not be directing any more . |
| 28 | He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before , spasm following spasm . |
| 29 | He beat me 3–0 in a five-frame match , 2–0 when we doubled the money and then we played a final frame for double-your-money again and when he reached the yellow he had already won the match . |
| 30 | He was measuring the fear he had just felt . |