Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becker 's case was notable because he was captured by the widely-circulated photographs , but he argued that he had intended only to fire a warning shot . |
| 2 | After Angela Deverill 's cruel treatment of him he had vowed never to have anything to do with women again — other than to slake certain demanding bodily appetites — and then even the appetites had disappeared until McAllister had revived them . |
| 3 | He had discovered how to make reasonable toast . |
| 4 | Vologsky had not monitored all his automatic recording , but he had seen enough to know that things were really serious . |
| 5 | He had not had time to compare more than a few paragraphs scattered throughout each text , but he had seen enough to know that their contents were practically identical . |
| 6 | He lay awake in the big double bed where for sixteen years he had striven desperately to create the heirs to inherit his many rich acres , but there had been no children . |
| 7 | He had bent down to lift his bag again . |
| 8 | The traveller then saw that he was sitting right on the edge of a cliff , and if he had leaned over to get the log he would have fallen to his death . |
| 9 | But then , when he had leaned forward to brush her cheek , her neck , she had moved back as if he had transgressed , and all his knowledge of her had been shattered by her refusal . |
| 10 | He had jumped down to open the carriage door for her and Charlotte and the child made to get in . |
| 11 | He had turned back to help someone else out of the train , but at the sound of her calling , he swung round and stood waiting , his arms outstretched and his face , above that dear and familiar gingery beard , creased with the broadest smile . |
| 12 | He had moved out to escape distraction and improve on the bad lighting , but more than anything he wanted space , so that he could draw from a model occasionally . |
| 13 | Raised in London by his grandparents , he had studied hard to become an oil industry engineer . |
| 14 | Granny 's son had been a gamekeeper on the estate , but now that he had gone elsewhere to work Sir Benson had given Granny notice that she must quit the cottage . |
| 15 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 16 | He had gone away to get more ammunition and fired twice more . |
| 17 | From the ordinary subjects of casual conversation — books , recent plays , acquaintances they had in common — he had gone on to talk about himself . |
| 18 | He had gone on to talk of his brother , killed five years earlier in Northern Ireland : |
| 19 | He had gone on to remark that the Toraja combined various features which were rarely found together : they had hunted heads , believed in a celestial origin , practised a primeval megalithism , built sophisticated architecture and produced a unique written ( or , rather , carved-and-painted ) language , which very few scholars can read . |
| 20 | After The Strutters , he had gone on to play a leading part in another sitcom . |
| 21 | She cooked bacon and eggs for Philip , and when he had gone up to sleep , waited , not only for Jasper but for Jim too . |
| 22 | Once the lids of the outer case and the leaden shell had been removed , the workman prised off the lid of the inner coffin ; the slightly yellowed silk sheets were drawn back and there lay the body of the child , looking as if he had gone off to sleep but a few moments before . |
| 23 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 24 | Without any hesitation , he had gone off to confront a possible intruder . |
| 25 | Then he had gone off to have a full breakfast in the canteen . |
| 26 | He had gone home to face crisis and , as he persuaded himself , subsequent obscurity . |
| 27 | Occasionally he had gone in to sit by Commander Barnwell 's bed and seek comfort in his sea-scoured face and calm eyes . |
| 28 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 29 | He had gone there to lay a wreath on every visit since . |
| 30 | What kind of a warning he could n't say , but his family noticed with alarm that he had gone out to consult the tree again . |