Example sentences of "that he had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sighvat 's Knútsdrápa indicates that he had sailed from England to deal with the threat posed by Olaf and Anund Jacob , and mentions his visit to Rome . |
| 2 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 3 | Reginald had discarded his officer 's uniform that he had worn at dinner and was now dressed in ordinary dark trousers and a blue-velvet smoking jacket . |
| 4 | He wore the same black clothes — baggy corduroys , heavy sweater , working-man 's jacket — that he had worn through the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 5 | As he waited for the executioner , he was dressed in the blue suit that he had worn on his last public appearance . |
| 6 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 7 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 8 | Ramsey afterwards could not remember a word that he had said in his speech . |
| 9 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 10 | The last they heard was that he had gone over the wall for two years . |
| 11 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 12 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 13 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 14 | I was told that the manager had gone to lunch , and when I asked for him to be bleeped I was told again that he had gone to lunch and that he had left his bleep at the switchboard — all in a tone that suggested that this was standard behaviour . |
| 15 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 16 | Fran exchanged pleasantries with her , curbing her impatience before finally asking if she knew where Luke had gone , and went weak with relief when the other woman informed her that he had gone to the old college . |
| 17 | Robin Mark Davies told the inquest that he had gone with Mr Venables to the Central Park Hotel in Bromborough and that his friend had started to ‘ freak out ’ . |
| 18 | And , looking down at the still-outstretched arm , the glazed and open eyes , the great scarlet pool soaking into the earth , she knew that it was a body , that he had gone for ever , that there was nothing she need fear from him ever again . |
| 19 | All three write that he went on the pilgrimage in 822 , al-Makrizi saying that he had gone by way of Damascus , Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi possibly implying that he went from Jerusalem since they write that he " returned " there after the pilgrimage : the two versions are not , of course , mutually exclusive in any case , and the latter two authors may well mean no more than that he returned [ from the pilgrimage ] to Jerusalem . |
| 20 | Mr Brownlow explained that he had run after the boy only because he saw him running away . |
| 21 | With some pique Lydia understood that he had decided against finding her interesting . |
| 22 | And then of course , the other characteristics that go with religion , and that he had emphasized in other books on Totem and Taboo , like guilt , the feeling that you ought to obey the moral commands of the parents , because after all the parents were n't just benevolent entities who looked after you and rewarded you and praised you , but they were your judges and censors as well . |
| 23 | She had planned now to tell him that he was the one who was thick ; that he had fallen into her trap ; that she , Gazzer , and Bella knew all about him and what he had done . |
| 24 | He told me that he had fallen into the water with Compeyson , and then been hit by the ship . |
| 25 | Everyone thought that he had fallen into the river and been carried away . |
| 26 | 30–3–1884 Alex McLeod , Lightkeeper , Rhuvaal Lighthouse stated that he had fallen into the sin of fornication but he desired the privilege of baptism of his child . |
| 27 | Only when they actually got to know each other had he discovered that it was the idea of loving her that he had fallen for and not the girl herself . |
| 28 | The mother-daughter relationship he had witnessed in London had moved him so profoundly that he had fallen in love with them both . |
| 29 | In testimony and published accounts he had insisted that he had argued against the proposition of selling arms to Iran and had believed that the idea had been abandoned . |
| 30 | He also indicated that he had disagreed with other members of the government on the running of the education department and said that he had been " gradually marginalized within the government " . |