Example sentences of "had [vb pp] he [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot 's renunciation of primitivism and sexuality recalls this phrasing while pulling away from the world which had fascinated him earlier ; he sees from the fertile ‘ slotted window bellied like the fig 's fruit ’ how |
| 2 | Hari recognized him at once , he was the friend of Edward Morris , she had seen him earlier sitting before the fire in the comfortable house on Chapel Street . |
| 3 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 4 | She knew he was back from town , had seen him earlier through the window . |
| 5 | The Inspector had seen him earlier that night and made it plain what he thought of him . |
| 6 | A feeling of malaise which had beset him earlier , and which he had blamed on the news from Oxford , persisted . |
| 7 | She had been loyal to him , had understood him better than in all his youth he had ever known . |
| 8 | People who had driven him further and further into the woods that slope down from the Common towards the mam road to the south-west . |
| 9 | They had found him quicker than he 'd anticipated , sniffing him out through the darkened streets . |
| 10 | Grunte had taken him earlier in the year to a lunch at the Connaught Rooms where he ( Malcolm ) had been introduced to Lady Porter . |
| 11 | Ben thought that this was considerable cheek , on two counts : one , he had beaten him earlier in the year in Moscow , and two , Ben had been the faster all year . |
| 12 | Athelstan had questioned him further . |
| 13 | His war wound which had pained him earlier was now turning to agony . |