Example sentences of "he had [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The urine sample taken from the colt after he had trailed in 10th , 23 lengths behind stable-mate Commander In Chief , proved negative when analysed by the Horseracing Forensic Laboratory . |
| 2 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 3 | When he recalled how he had felt on first seeing her he had to push the sinful thoughts out of his mind . |
| 4 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 5 | One of the leading dissidents reflected the wider view , when Winston Churchill thanked Mr Heseltine for the ‘ considerable distance ’ he had travelled since last year . |
| 6 | True , he had struggled at first to satisfy his beautiful young bride ; he had been too long a bachelor and too set in his ways . |
| 7 | Shelby did n't like Ferrari ; like plenty of others before and after , he had experienced at first hand Enzo Ferrari 's withering contempt for lesser mortals . |
| 8 | But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies , halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere . |
| 9 | Or so he had thought at first , hearing her voice , looking round the well-furnished rooms , the shelves full of old china figures , in her polished house . |
| 10 | It had n't been much of a job after all ; he had thought at first from the sound of it that it might mean travel , but it did n't . |
| 11 | He had thought at first that the man was lost and required instructions , but realised after the words had blown away that it was a quiet inquiry for cash . |
| 12 | He had arrived at last . |
| 13 | He was the son of Joshua Green ( b. 1725 ) by his father 's first wife Catherine Simpson , whom he had married on 22nd February 1756 , and who died on 5th September 1760 in her 27th year , just eleven days after giving birth to her son William on the 25th August . |
| 14 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 15 | He had converted one of the outhouses into a sort of workshop where he tinkered with a collection of small engines , antique lighting plants and water pumps that he had bought for next to nothing at country auctions over the years . |
| 16 | Miriam could hardly believe that he had spoken at last . |
| 17 | Though he was a college Conservative of a patriotic and nationalist kind , he had shown at first no sign of the bitter and obsessive anti-Semitism that became the hallmark of his speaking and writing . |