Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 2 | He could n't help wondering if he 'd interrupted him in the act of copulation . |
| 3 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 4 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 5 | Minton explained that he had recognised him from a self-portrait that had been exhibited at the AIA Gallery in London . |
| 6 | He had seen him in the city . |
| 7 | He had never been this close to him before , though of course he had seen him from a distance on parade , the short , brisk figure in green and white , dwarfed by the forest of cocked hats around , yet somehow contriving to dominate them all . |
| 8 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 9 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 10 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 11 | As the York writer noted , the king did not love Anselm after he had thwarted him in the matter of investitures . |
| 12 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 13 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 14 | He had put him in the Cabinet because , with Bonar Law gone , he needed a man from the Law stable to preserve the balance . |
| 15 | He had found him as a young officer in the Prenzlauer Berg division when he was no more than eighteen , but he already had a considerable appetite for the harsh and cruel police work that the Stasi required . |
| 16 | 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 . |