Example sentences of "[adv] he had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hunter 's committee clearly thought that Vial on his own could not conduct the course , while Morton 's committee appear to have accepted Vial 's claims regarding appointments which apparently he had never held . |
| 2 | Hitherto he had only visualized her through Gabriel 's eyes , and he saw now that his little friend was not an accurate describer . |
| 3 | Of more than 40 witnesses , only he had positively identified the defendant but the jury could still convict on his evidence alone if it was convinced by it . |
| 4 | Only he had never minded about Kathleen , the youngest of them . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had already formed a notion of sailing alone round the world . |
| 6 | Or perhaps he had already found them . |
| 7 | Perhaps he had simply given her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 8 | Perhaps he had even suggested it . |
| 9 | Perhaps he had also mentioned the fact that they had observed Dersingham , presumably not too many hours after the discovery of the car in the Broad , with trousers which were dripping wet ? |
| 10 | Hearing these words , Charlemagne wept , and he gave back to Udalric all he had formerly held " . |
| 11 | So he had probably left exactly when he meant to leave , intending to attack Terry Place but being killed himself . |
| 12 | So he had thankfully devoured his second breakfast , simply pleased that his father was being so attentive to him and not connecting this in any way with his own outburst of the night before . |
| 13 | So he had always believed . |
| 14 | So he had only had to cope with the loss for slightly over half an hour . |
| 15 | So he had once argued . |
| 16 | So he had obviously slept . |
| 17 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 18 | Thus he had already started to make dispositions for the future . |
| 19 | He had moored three laden barges in position midstream and is the tide turned and the fog swept upriver he had finally managed to bring the last of them into its berth below Chamber 's Wharf . |
| 20 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 21 | Already he had half decided that it had to be . |
| 22 | Lately he had always seemed to start the day with a broken window-pane , and then suddenly one morning the front of his shop was boarded up and we never saw Mr Schultz again . |
| 23 | Wings bigger and blacker and more formidable than any he had yet seen . |
| 24 | However , he had one final argument , more crushing than any he had yet delivered , and for this he needed no words . |
| 25 | Thus resulted in a correspondence with Mr D.S.V. Fosten , who gave his opinion that is was a rare specimen of an other ranks ' jacket of the period , and that the wings and blue grenade patches were unlike any he had ever seen . |
| 26 | Her husband , up to the time of his death , had been a miner although there had been occasions when he had made scarcely any wage — but still he had never sent his children to the mine . |
| 27 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
| 28 | A second later he had neatly kicked her right stirrup out . |
| 29 | His voice was alert , not the least bit sleepy , although clearly he had just woken . |
| 30 | Now he had nearly reached the point where darting mist roared to almost touch his head , like stabbing , jabbing tendrils of motion . |