Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he lay beside her later , exalted and still alive , he thought of how he had previously denied himself this ecstasy . |
| 2 | It did n't occur to Lowell to wonder how he had also familiarised himself with drugs . |
| 3 | I thought it was a good analogy to how Manson had affected the country , how he had really wedged himself into the American family to the extent that he 's now on the country 's most popular TV show . |
| 4 | Nicky was assured — even worldly — and , in the early stages of their friendship , used his confidence to put Constance in her place — not because of any particular need to bully her but merely because that was how he had always treated his girlfriends . |
| 5 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |
| 6 | Again there was silence between them , but as Mr Beecham stared at this young man , he remembered Martin hinting that his aunt kept the young boy on a tight rein ; and he also went further back and recalled Arthur 's confidence and how he had once described his sister-in-law as a frantic leech . |
| 7 | Elwood lived with his parents on Ross Street West , and I remember going to his house one day in late June when he had just completed his high school training to offer him a job at CHAB . |
| 8 | Graham Vick directed the Scottish Opera production of Carmen in 1986 , when he had already established his name as one of the major innovators in opera ( it was he who directed the stunning version of Wagner 's ‘ Ring ’ in the Whitla Hall at last year 's Festival . ) |
| 9 | Just as they had that other time when he had briefly held her , her senses were reacting with a will of their own . |
| 10 | Back in the days when he had yet concerned himself with the world . |
| 11 | But finally the itching was too much for him and we got up one morning to find plaster of Paris and remnants of bandage all over the carpet where he had irritably scissored it off at two in the morning . |
| 12 | He did not want that to happen again ; perhaps , he reasoned , it was why he had never asked her to move in with him . |
| 13 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |