Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was still wearing the elegantly tailored suit he had worn on that occasion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had posed for that portrait at the age of twenty-two ; a year later he was in the Crimea . |
| 6 | He had to apologise about that young girl Carly because he got it all wrong . |
| 7 | He had heard of that brand of peculiarity before . |
| 8 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 9 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 10 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
| 11 | " Just think of Dr Livingstone , " chided Eva , who knew he had travelled through that area . |
| 12 | So he had gone to that other place where , so Mrs Parvis said , red and orange fires burned day and night , so hot that glass and brick and even solid rock melted to liquid . |
| 13 | He said he 'd expire if he had to sit on that high stool much longer . |
| 14 | From there , the crossing and the distance he had covered on that path , to the place where he was found , would take him no more than half an hour — less , if he was a brisk walker , and it was raining , he 'd be no longer than he need out in it . |
| 15 | Usually he was in camouflage smock and holding an A.K. at the hip , and would probably have knocked half his pelvis off from the recoil if he had fired at that angle . |
| 16 | If only he had acceded to that suggestion of hers ! |
| 17 | Nor could he even remember now what he had said in that burst of spleen . |
| 18 | He had twisted in that grip , tried to bring the gun round to bear on that monstrous maw . |
| 19 | Alex Macdonald , the hard-nosed manager of Airdrie , refused to apologise for his team 's performance in a midweek match against Hibs in Edinburgh any more than he had done after that bewildering semi-final against Hearts at Hampden . |
| 20 | ‘ If he had participated in that debate and gone through the moral and ethical gymnastics we were going through , I think things would have turned out very differently . ’ |
| 21 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 22 | Corbett , remembering all he had seen the previous night , was more wary of Thomas : the evil he had experienced in that hut was nothing to take lightly . |
| 23 | It was four years since they had parted , and who knew how much he had changed during that time ? |
| 24 | On the day they had gone , when the summer was over and the skies grey and a wind blowing , he had thought of that image . |
| 25 | He felt a superstitious , almost fatalistic reluctance to look too closely now , in case he discovered some horror he had overlooked on that earlier journey , for toe tender was accepted and the price could not be varied . |
| 26 | President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak cut short an official five-day visit to China ( where he had arrived on that day ) to return to Egypt . |
| 27 | Anyway , someone pointed out that the face in the mirror was obviously not the face of the woman looking into it , something to do with the angle at which the mirror was held , and what theory they attached to that , whether it had been intended , or a mistake , or even an overpainting at a later date — he did not remember that he had known about that . |
| 28 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 29 | Petur Beron on Dec. 3 announced his intention to resign as chair of the UDF co-ordinating council ( he had succeeded to that post after Zhelev had resigned it in August upon being elected President ) . |
| 30 | He had sat in that locked room talking , therapist and patient both , had talked it over and over . |