Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pity because , had he lost that job , the party would almost certainly have split . |
| 2 | He heard Mandru tell all the other Ixmaritians that never had he seen such eloquence of posture , such moving pathos . |
| 3 | ‘ The poor little mite ! ’ he exclaimed , as he might had he seen another man 's child being mistreated in the street . |
| 4 | Dear God , what had he done that things should come to such a pass as this ? |
| 5 | He had neither remained discreetly silent , nor had he made any attempt to explain in public the reasons for his resignation . |
| 6 | Had he made any sort of impression ? |
| 7 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 8 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 9 | Had he said this minutes earlier , the baying journalists would have been soothed into silence . |
| 10 | Where had he heard that phrase before ? |
| 11 | Had he grasped this shard of hope with any real understanding , she wondered ? |
| 12 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 13 | Why had he chosen this subject ? |
| 14 | Dotty was thirty-nine , but had he added twenty years onto her age he knew it would n't have deterred Harbour . |
| 15 | He said that they had never forgotten her ; nor had he forgot ten Slavko , with whom he used to play . |
| 16 | When had he taken any delight in killing ? |
| 17 | Had he smiled that day too ? |
| 18 | Never had he known such rapture . |
| 19 | Had he left enough money ? |
| 20 | Had he forgotten this morning already ? |
| 21 | Devon Loch had appeared to take off right by the water jump , which the runners on the second circuit of the Grand National by-pass as they approach the winning post : had he caught that fence out of the corner of his eye and tried to jump it ? |
| 22 | Nor had he had any reason to complain about the security measures surrounding visitors to the base . |
| 23 | Had he screamed this time ? |
| 24 | However , economy being of prime importance , he included , he said , nothing inessential to the art of gardening that might increase the size and price ( eighteen shillings ) , but neither had he omitted any advice which might be deemed useful to the profession , ‘ so that upon the whole the work is rendered as complete a system of practical gardening as present knowledge of vegetation can supply ’ . |
| 25 | Why had he allowed two days to go by ? |
| 26 | How had he got two jobs ? |
| 27 | But how had he learned that expertise ? |