Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had broken through the picquet lines . |
| 2 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 3 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 4 | Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists . |
| 5 | The Salinas government had hailed his arrest as a blow against corruption , but there was widespread speculation that Galicia was in fact being targeted because he had broken with the PRI during the 1988 elections . |
| 6 | In other words , he had broken with the model after their blink-of-the-eye affair . |
| 7 | At least he had grown beyond the need to despise people in order to give himself stature . |
| 8 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |
| 9 | He had pointed along the bank to where an elderly Arab was standing in the water bent over the gunwale of a small , crazily-built boat . |
| 10 | If he had crawled under the rails in order to throw himself off the cliff , then he could easily have caught his slacks on something and left the thread behind . |
| 11 | He had stayed with the couple until 4pm . |
| 12 | For very form 's sake , and because , after all , Stair was his brother , he had stayed with the party through one act of a musical comedy at the Gaiety Theatre where they had made so much noise that their departure at the first interval must have pleased the audience which they had left behind , had gone to Quaggers — Quaglino 's — to dine — which meant drink — in a private room , and were now on their way to crown their evening 's pleasure by ‘ Pushing the boat out for Havvie ’ , Stair 's witticism . |
| 13 | He had stayed with the launcher , calmly perfecting his adjustment of the aim . |
| 14 | He had insisted on going with her but Carrie was beginning to wish he had stayed in the shop . |
| 15 | He had stayed in the car . |
| 16 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 17 | Among the latter was Imelda Marcos whom he had defeated in the election , and who , together with her husband President Ferdinand Marcos , had been forced from office in 1986 by a popular campaign in which Ramos had played a key role . |
| 18 | Clinton received another boost when , on July 8 , he was publicly endorsed by Paul Tsongas whom he had defeated in the primary contests . |
| 19 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 20 | Having delayed longer than he had intended at the barrow , he even pumped the pedals on the downhill sections , always anxious about the safety of the curious evidence in his saddle bag . |
| 21 | But if he was caught with the with the crown , by his opponents before he circled them and came back to his own allies … then he had to go outside the camp , and he was called a [ maggot ! ] . |
| 22 | He had to go through the shopping centre to get there , and the market-place . |
| 23 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 24 | He had to go through the churchyard to reach the back lane so he counted the houses to be sure of identifying Alfred 's door . |
| 25 | Part way through that exercise he had to go into the storeroom to check a detail regarding the number of the machine which had been selected . |
| 26 | Still , he had until two o'clock before he had to go into the College — today was the day he did evening teaching . |
| 27 | He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party . |
| 28 | Dad was under his car working on it one Sunday morning when the police drove by and handed him a ‘ producer ’ , which meant that he had to go to the police station with all his driving documents . |
| 29 | Daddy wanted that farm very badly but they did n't have much money between them , so he had to go to the bank and ask for a loan . |
| 30 | Now he knew what he had to do : he had to go to the Unification Church and find out what , if anything , was going on there . |