Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 2 | His hands were careful and restrained , his mouth tender , and although only a very short while later , Cassie was to realize just how much self-control he had exerted at that moment of their first real physical contact , for those few minutes , she knew only that she was not afraid of him , nor even suspected that there was any need to be . |
| 3 | Only three days earlier , however , he had written to another correspondent in less drastic tones : " give me a few more years and you should sense a new influence on classical studies " . |
| 4 | In cross examination he accepted that there was no such reference in any report he had written in this case and agreed that quote , I do n't think I 've discussed Cheshire Homes before today , unquote . |
| 5 | Using his Farman , which he had flown with such excellent results for the past few years , Jack instructed pupils with equally good results . |
| 6 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 7 | He had hoped by this gesture to spare his people the customary vengeance which the Turks exacted indiscriminately against the population when Serbs defied them . |
| 8 | And , indeed , he must have been a tough little lad to have survived it all , though it was to take its toll on him eventually ; by the time he died in far-away London at the age of 29 he had lived through some very harsh times indeed . |
| 9 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 10 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 11 | He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion . |
| 12 | He had emerged into another pool of dim light at the far end of the corridor . |
| 13 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 14 | For whatever reason he did not stop at the Fish — which he had visited on several occasions ; nor did he seek out or meet Mary whom he knew and greatly admired . |
| 15 | This was not what he had wanted at all . |
| 16 | In the back of the taxi he snuffled contentedly at some ( he thought ) particularly witty riposte he had made to some piece of boyish impertinence from 3B in the final period of the day . |
| 17 | Suspicion of the king lingered on after the conclusion of the parliament of 1341 , and was probably intensified by his solemn revocation of the concessions he had made in that parliament at a council attended by all the magnates in early October 1341 . |
| 18 | He commended the author for his exact instructions regarding the building of greenhouses and stoves , each of which was illustrated to show improvements he had made in these aspects of horticulture . |
| 19 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 20 | He had posed for that portrait at the age of twenty-two ; a year later he was in the Crimea . |
| 21 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 22 | Burton never — to my knowledge — spoke of the early mass of films he had seen with any of that significant affection other actors give to their earliest influences . |
| 23 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 24 | He had heard of that brand of peculiarity before . |
| 25 | Paul felt his heart stop ; he had heard of such a thing ; he should have known ; that woman — |
| 26 | He closed his fist on the gun ; he had heard of such weapons though never had one within his reach before . |
| 27 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 28 | He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi , and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange 's headquarters , but whether the French had invaded in force , or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons , the Duke still did not know . |
| 29 | Corbett remembered he had heard of this type of man , an ‘ Albus ’ , an all-white man or albino . |
| 30 | A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) . |