Example sentences of "[adv] he had [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he had crossed the gap between them . |
| 2 | Apparently he had mistaken the small man in jeans for the window cleaner he had sent for . |
| 3 | He knew that basically he had enjoyed the careful battle of wits . |
| 4 | Perhaps he had visited the pirates during the night , when they were lying around their fire , full of rum . |
| 5 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 6 | Perhaps he had had the same thought , because as their eyes met something seemed to pass between them , some spark of longing they both recognised . |
| 7 | Obviously he had taken the opportunity whilst in the station of running through her statement . |
| 8 | So he had adopted the feeble expedient of ringing the Frome household around teatime , and asking to speak to Pickerage . |
| 9 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 10 | So he had put the ‘ Closed ’ sign up . |
| 11 | At this point he decided to follow a mathematical career and soon he had added the senior mathematical scholarship to his list of honours . |
| 12 | Finally he had exhausted the new pilots ' capacity for fear . |
| 13 | Somehow he had survived the attempted assassinations , the palace revolutions of his childhood , and was beginning to gather about him men who were willing to gamble their fortune with his , as well as others who were still not committed , and yet others who might , before he grew any stronger , take any chance that presented itself to push their own claims . |
| 14 | Somehow he had missed the announcement that Tubby was in command of one of the Dublin Black and Tan units — he had enough to do maintaining the morale and the strictly military role of his own division in Cork without spending time scanning the lists of appointments elsewhere in the country . |
| 15 | Somehow he had had the sound relayed to a speaker , or speakers , in the hills — perhaps that was what was in the little room , relaying equipment , a generator . |
| 16 | Somehow he had traversed the latest scorching zone , feeling that he was being utterly consumed . |
| 17 | His armour of cynicism was shown up as useless ; all he could feel was how desperately he had wanted the job and how bitter he felt at the injustice that had taken it away from him . |
| 18 | In his Circle Limit series , the Dutch artist M. C. Escher borrowed a version of Poincaré 's model from H. S. M. Coxeter , professor of mathematics at Toronto University , and embellished its symmetries , just as elsewhere he had embellished the more worldly symmetries of the familiar Euclidean plane ( Figure 6 ) . |
| 19 | One had been an Egyptian , who had tried to keep alive the Egyptian Aten religion when it looked like disappearing in Egypt itself from about the year 1315 B.C. He had chosen the Jews in Egypt as a people to whom he would teach this religion . |
| 20 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 21 | Under Secretary of State for Wales , Gwilym Jones , said yesterday he had asked the NRPB to carry out still more detailed work . |
| 22 | Yesterday he had taught the class about the wonders of John Dory . |
| 23 | RUDY DHAENENS , Belgium 's former cycling world champion and the 1990 professional road title-holder , announced yesterday he had quit the sport because of a heart problem — and is to become a bond trader . |
| 24 | But yesterday he had dismissed the thought . |
| 25 | PATRICK RYAN , the Irish Catholic priest sought by Britain on terrorist charges , said yesterday he had spent the 14 years since dropping out of active priesthood raising money from foreign embassies for the victims of the conflict in Northern Ireland . |
| 26 | Possibly he had abducted the girl with a view to rape and murder . |
| 27 | Calmly he had removed the black skull-cap from the back of his head , replaced it with a bowler hat , and donned a heavy overcoat . |
| 28 | In his Memoirs he claims feebly he had foreseen the dangers , but believed that with the limited forces available an attack on the Left Bank would have been stopped by the ‘ well-constructed ’ enemy position . |
| 29 | It would be good to make Ken Harris admit that for once he had suspected the wrong man . |
| 30 | While Helmholtz did not report solving problems in dreams , he did apparently rely to some extent on an autonomous process , so that once he had done the groundwork on a problem he sometimes achieved his insights apparently spontaneously , for instance when out walking . |