Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] he at " in BNC.
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1 | Literally hours before the Shah was about to be bundled off to South Africa , the Rockefeller-Kissinger connection had finally found him at least a temporary haven — the Bahamas . |
2 | Zen had hardly heard him at the time , shocked by the sight of the man he had been summoned to Perugia to save Iying naked on a plastic sheet with a thermometer sticking out of his anus . |
3 | The fenland winds blew through a town ‘ very fertile in alleys , and mud , and cats , and dogs … ’ but almost devoid of the friends who had increasingly sustained him at Christ 's Hospital . |
4 | Like Han Ch'in that time , when she had almost bettered him at archery … |
5 | Bamber Gascoigne , who had never seen him at work before his show , told me : ‘ He was absolutely wonderful in it . |