Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd sailed these waters for six months and knew every reef and coral head shallow enough to be a threat . |
| 2 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 3 | Looking about him , it was hard to imagine anything quite so different from the world he had inhabited these past ten years — a world as divorced from this simple domesticity as death is from life . |
| 4 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
| 5 | He had seen these ample fields , as he had seen Cezanne 's geometric brown and green undergrowth in more than one mental hospital day room . |
| 6 | He had formulated these principles on several occasions in the past , not least when monks had consulted him about accepting ecclesiastical promotion . |
| 7 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 8 | He had preached a sermon in which he had said these words : ‘ It is dangerous to be a Christian in our nation . |
| 9 | When he had said these things they all replied that they prayed God to preserve him through long and happy years , and four of the most honourable among them rose and kissed his hands , and the Cid bade them take their seats again . |
| 10 | In the Introduction Taylor explained that he had committed these rules to a book because many of ‘ his brethren in persecution ’ were no longer able to seek the advice of Anglican Ministers . |
| 11 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 12 | David was in a state at that time saying that he had signed these things years ago and wanted to get out . |
| 13 | However , even if he had added these , the list was bound to be short . |
| 14 | He had requested these resignations as part of a longer term plan to reduce the number of ministries to nine and , in the short term , to provide evidence that the government was intent on achieving greater efficiency . |
| 15 | A few fragments of carrot were still lying about near the spring , but he had left these untouched and was eating the grass not far from the gnarled crabapple tree . |