Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 32 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 33 | He was not available for comment , however , as he had just flown off to Australia . |
| 34 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |
| 35 | She did not remember anyone inviting Tim , he had just tagged on to them , but she felt it was safer to take him than leave him near Durance in case he made any further blackmail attempts . |
| 36 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 37 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 38 | He pointed to the one he had just come out of . |
| 39 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 40 | He had just sat down in front of the television , beer in one hand , chicken leg in the other , feet on the coffee table , and Sportsnight just started . |
| 41 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 42 | She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness . |
| 43 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 44 | Then he had simply skied off like a maniac — anger , she registered . |
| 45 | As he spoke , he had already turned abruptly on his heel and was leading her in swift strides across the wide hallway . |
| 46 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 47 | But Mr Ben Ali said he had already done enough for them . |
| 48 | Normally he had already gone out to the horses but now she had to face him and she was feeling quite unsure of herself . |
| 49 | He had already stood out against the Board 's obstinacy by forcing out their version of the comparative costs between nuclear- and coal-powered electricity ( see Chapter Six ) . |
| 50 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 51 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 52 | Then the minister deigned to appear and defended himself by saying he had once come out to a stranger who called , but the man proved to be ‘ a little worth person ’ . |
| 53 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 54 | It was the only thing he had ever stood out for . |
| 55 | He had actually slumped down at the breakfast table before he became aware of Kelly 's presence . |
| 56 | It was still hard to tell whether he had actually cottoned on to what the name was . |
| 57 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 58 | Mr Lawson said he had always played straight with people , which was why the Government was so respected , ‘ even if it is not always loved by all the people ’ . |
| 59 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 60 | ‘ So … so I 'll send them , shall I ? ’ she asked , holding her breath , bracing herself , waiting for the blunt , ‘ You do that ! ’ the violent , ‘ Go to Hell ! ’ the indifferent dismissal , or , even worse , the continuing silence which meant he had really hung up on her . |