Example sentences of "[adj] he had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned. he had obviously lent it to her . ’ |
| 2 | Which was why , of course , no one else had ever guessed at just how much he had always loathed her . |
| 3 | By grossly exaggerating the victim 's treatment of the accused in order to gain sympathy for the latter he had instead made it seem all the more likely that he had meant to kill . |
| 4 | At first he had seriously thought she might be play-acting . |
| 5 | It was the first he had ever paid her . |
| 6 | Given that he had half frightened her to death to begin with , he 'd been a gentle lover too , she recalled , a tender smile playing around her mouth . |
| 7 | Mary looked the nearest to ugly he had ever seen her . |
| 8 | By the time he was conscripted into the Red Army of Workers and Peasants ( Rabochiy Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya , RKKA ) in 1919 he had already shown his intelligence by graduating from a theological seminary . |
| 9 | As she turned her back on him , she was breathless with rage , lying staring at the darkened wall of the cabin , aware he had completely turned her confrontation to his advantage and beaten her hands down . |