Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 2 | He must have wished he had stayed at home . |
| 3 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mr Athulathmudali 's bodyguard said he had shot at the assassin , but believed he had missed . |
| 7 | This was not one of the women he had peeped at on other occasions . |
| 8 | He sat naked , at her desk , reading something he had written at the typewriter . |
| 9 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 10 | Having secured the tables and the glasses , he had peered at the dark discoloured oil of an elderly cleric in a shovel hat and opined that this was the work of ‘ our local genius ’ . |
| 11 | He lived with Val , whom he had met at a Freshers ' tea party in the Student Union when he was eighteen . |
| 12 | Some creature he had met at a dinner party recently ( he was , it had to be said , from East Finchley ) had had the nerve to tell him that New York was ‘ more vibrant ’ than Wimbledon . |
| 13 | Harry could not at first believe that the tall and graceful youth beside Ockleton in the picture was the same man he had met at Tyler 's Hard . |
| 14 | That evening , Anderson , at a subdued dinner with McKendrick and Chetwyn , argues with McKendrick about ethical problems before being approached by Hollar 's wife , whom he had met at the searching of the apartment ( scene eight ) . |
| 15 | Green had developed a passion for a university law student he had met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 16 | On a pre-war state visit to India , he outraged officialdom by cutting a banquet to slip away to a pretty Burmese princess he had met at the Middlesex Regiment Ball . |
| 17 | Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 . |
| 18 | Although he had lived at Baskerville Hall for only two years , everyone liked him . |
| 19 | When I obtained the death certificate of Thomas Batty ( 1882 ) , I read that he had lived at Mastington ; I eventually discovered that this was a copyist 's error for Markington . |
| 20 | For example , his belief that the leader 's job was to set a policy and leave his subordinates to implement it — the belief that he had expressed at the War College in the 1920s ( see page 4 ) — got him into deep water in Algeria . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was sitting on the edge of the bed , his collar loosened and the tie he had worn at dinner hanging loose about his neck . |
| 23 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 24 | Waving a fist at the camera , Cameron Nielson recited the names of those blacklist casualties he had avenged at last . |
| 25 | It was the 28th house he had called at . |
| 26 | In addition , he had called at the Fleming house where he had got no reply to his bell-ringing . |
| 27 | Under Section 37 of Britain 's Mental Health Act , he would have been legally a free man if he had remained at large for another hour . |
| 28 | He had been detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act , and the order would have lapsed if he had remained at large for 28 days , unless there was fresh evidence of mental illness . |
| 29 | This was not what he had wanted at all . |
| 30 | I sought clarification on a point he had made at the press conference . |