Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [pron] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had missed us at Alassio and followed the train in his car , he had something to speak to her about . |
| 2 | He had phoned her at Milton Buildings , saying that he had a routine enquiry to make about the Datsun , would have asked for Mr Marius Steen but , owing to the recent regrettable happening , wondered if she could help . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
| 4 | Wordsworth 's first publications , An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches , appeared in 1793 ; the aim was to bring his name before the public as he felt he had done nothing at university — and , of course , the faint hope of making money . |
| 5 | It seemed like only yesterday that he had presented himself at Manchester 's Ringway Airport for training with the newly formed Parachute Regiment . |
| 6 | Paddick told him it was because he had watched him at work for so long . |
| 7 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |
| 8 | That was how he had greeted her at Euston on her return from Ireland after the New Year . |
| 9 | His lordship , I knew , was willing and eager , but he had helped me at jobs before and his usefulness was impaired by the fact that his hands were always filled with his smoking items and he kept dropping things . |