Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressing his foot to the floor , Nate Springfield drove as he 'd never driven before … |
| 2 | Durkheim belonged to that contemplative school of armchair theorists epitomized by Sir James Frazer , who is supposed to have solemnly replied ‘ God forbid ! ’ to the innocent questioner who asked if he had ever lived amongst ‘ savages ’ . |
| 3 | I asked if he had ever told his wife or anyone else about this before and his reply was , ‘ No ’ . |
| 4 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 5 | Now the Thames was a thread of silver below them , and Fenna flew as he had never flown before . |
| 6 | Calmly , I inquired if he had ever visited Jean-Claude 's home . |
| 7 | He knew if he had only played ball , she would have been more than pleased to accommodate him , as she probably thought of it , when his attentions were not engaged elsewhere . |
| 8 | Doyle laughed before he had even finished . |
| 9 | Yanto broke out of his protective screen and ran as he had never ran before . |
| 10 | The way he kept hanging about him , Quentin wondered if he had perhaps decided to become a clergyman again . |
| 11 | Taking another glass of champagne , he wondered if he had really managed to convey all that . |
| 12 | He looked drawn now , Ruth thought , and wondered if he had ever given her a thought since Seville . |
| 13 | She wondered if he had ever brought Suzanne Regan here and found it more than usually difficult to wipe the thought from her mind . |
| 14 | Briefly she wondered whether he 'd already drunk himself into oblivion and was lying in a paralytic stupor on the hearthrug while saucepans boiled dry on the stove and vegetables burned to a crisp . |