Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 2 | He had broken through from dramatic playing to a kind of performance , a ‘ presentation ’ , a subtle combination of personal expression and public code . |
| 3 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 4 | On the other hand , Burton stoutly denied that he had broken up nine marriages : why , he did not even know three of the couples aforementioned . |
| 5 | The flare of hatred vanished , to be replaced by the now familiar wave of misery that had descended on him when he had broken up with Suzi . |
| 6 | Aware that he had broken in , Surkov urged me to go on improvising . |
| 7 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 8 | Honeybeer Mead fell at the seventh , where Omerta was pulled up because jockey Lorcan Wyer feared he had broken down . |
| 9 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 10 | He had grown little in those two summers and she was now as tall as he but although her scrambling life on the Down had made her tough and wiry she was not as strong or as agile . |
| 11 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 12 | Charles had long been interested in architecture — he had grown up with beautiful buildings and visited hundreds more all over the world ; he had read extensively on the subject and , by the very nature of the job , had seen a multitude of buildings , especially in the inner cities , that not only looked ghastly , but that people clearly found ghastly to live in . |
| 13 | All the royal residences have magnificent gardens and he had grown up appreciating them , but they are tended by gardeners : neither the Queen nor the Duke of Edinburgh is interested . |
| 14 | He had grown up with a love of the countryside . |
| 15 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 16 | At a later time it was even decreed that should there be no male ( in particular a father ) available to sever the foreskin and make the blood flow , then the child should wait until he had grown up and then perform the operation himself . |
| 17 | I felt that we might be able to establish peace by other means until he had grown up and become more readily identifiable as top dog by Stan . |
| 18 | Maybe he had grown up without ever realising it . |
| 19 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 20 | Helping to save life was an idea he felt he had grown up with . |
| 21 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 22 | By temperament and experience he was equipped to deal with the race of Men , and as a native of Lothern he had grown up with an understanding of the worth of trade and a tolerant cosmopolitan outlook on the world . |
| 23 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 24 | He had grown up living in a web of deceit , he was used to his mother 's machinations , had grown accustomed to her lies . |
| 25 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 26 | This district , with its decaying tenements , its cobbled streets shattered and stinking , the pervasive odour of massed humanity , and their filth , reminded him with almost terrifying clarity of the wharves where he had grown up . |
| 27 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 28 | A mechanical response with which he had grown up , natural as breathing . |
| 29 | The discipline of a police state was what he had grown up with , what suited his talents best . |
| 30 | But to despatch a victim in the dark , while he was sleeping , was not a method of attack or survival understood by Dulé or the people among whom he had grown up . |