Example sentences of "he had get [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Deans record is 2 goals in 13 games — im quite sure that Frank at least would have doubled that if he had gotten the chance . |
| 2 | In addition , he had called at the Fleming house where he had got no reply to his bell-ringing . |
| 3 | From the ramparts of Whitehall he had got no glimpse of such realities of the secret world no hint from the sanitised prose of intelligence reports . |
| 4 | He turned away , and when he had got a safe distance , he began to whistle — a moist whistle that said he was n't really disturbed at all about Arty 's strange behaviour . |
| 5 | Out of the blue he had got a job as a mail boy in the MGM studios at thirty dollars a week , twice as much as he was paid in the toy store . |
| 6 | He had got a Burmese staff together with quite a good Anglo-Burman as editor of a daily paper in English called The Liberator with a daily circulation of about five thousand . |
| 7 | He had wanted a male grandchild and he had got a male grandchild ; that should be enough for everybody … [ 18 ] The good news therefore was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as dismay in Woburn Square , where the John Pontifexes were then living . |
| 8 | Here , indeed , this freak of fortune was felt to be all the more cruel on account of the impossibility of resenting it openly ; but the delighted grandfather cared nothing for what the John Pontifexes might feel or might not feel ; he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson ; this should be enough for everybody … |
| 9 | The egotism of the patriarch in search of an heir is intensified ; and the repetitive , parallelistic form of the new clause ( " … might feel or might not feel … ) matches the parallelism in the following clause ( " he had wanted a grandson and he had got a grandson " ) in suggesting the grandfather 's own emphatic and headstrong style of speech . |
| 10 | He had got a Double First . |
| 11 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 12 | He had got a prize for the design , although the users of it would not now have endorsed this since it was both hot and noisy . |
| 13 | The boy told him that he had got a place in a hostel , but that he would be lucky to get into a place like that if it was his first night . |
| 14 | And he had got a pile of something put on the ground from the er , at your park . |
| 15 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 16 | And she knew only too well how stubborn Julius could be once he had got an idea inside his head . |
| 17 | He went to bed to dream uneasily , and woke early as he always did in the early stages of a case before he had got the machine working properly . |
| 18 | He was glad he had got the hospital to contact her . |
| 19 | He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open . |
| 20 | Maidstone was used to all this and he had got the procedures worked out so well that very little mess was involved . |
| 21 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 22 | True to his word , Nichols was on the phone to Dustin again to tell him he had got the part . |
| 23 | By the time he had got the train to Exeter St David 's , its first stop , people had begun arriving , notably his father in a taxi . |
| 24 | He had got the weakest of the Coalitionists , and the one whose health was beginning to fail . |
| 25 | She had said much more , and while he had not listened closely , he had got the gist . |
| 26 | When her younger brother tried to challenge her inheritance from her mother , ‘ I told him that though he was now the heir , as being son , yet I was two years the elder by my birth , and though he had got the birthright , yet I ought to have a share of her blessing . ’ |
| 27 | Gerald was talking very fast and fluently , as he always did on the subject of money , but Charles reckoned he had got the gist . |
| 28 | Chris Court 's voice was lighter , as if now he had got the conversation under way , he felt better . |
| 29 | In a way , he was glad when the doorbell rang commandingly just as he had got the eggs in the pan . |
| 30 | Roman chuckled , and she knew he had got the reaction he had wanted . |