Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flare of hatred vanished , to be replaced by the now familiar wave of misery that had descended on him when he had broken up with Suzi . |
| 2 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 3 | He had grown out of fanaticism . |
| 4 | He had grown close to Gerry Gomez since the day he had asked if he could meet his sister at the airport , and they now worked together admirably . |
| 5 | So to pay the rent he had to go off to Czechoslovakia and Australia to do films he knew were n't much good . |
| 6 | If he , if he could n't do anything then he would accept it and not do it and then try a bit and if he had to go back to bed . |
| 7 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 8 | and what we doing now is London , London yesterday and you , you should have been at home today but he had to go back to London again so I did n't keep him very much , given up is it ? |
| 9 | Hanging over him all the time , however , was the knowledge that he had to go back into hospital for further surgery on his spine . |
| 10 | So he had to go there to Canada you see and er and . |
| 11 | Brownswerd was recommended to the Master 's post while Leigh was still in , office , and his appointment was confirmed on , 9th March 1565 ; he had taught already in Wilmslow and Macclesfield , and was to teach later at Stratford-on-Avon and again at Macclesfield , where he died on 15th April 1589 . |
| 12 | He had given up in despair . |
| 13 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 14 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 15 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 16 | He had written twice to Mr Bissett . |
| 17 | He had flown in via Honolulu , but reportedly had not deigned to glance over at the still-visible wreckage of Pearl Harbor , just off the runway . |
| 18 | Instead , he drove away in the , ran over a kerb , got a flat tyre and kept going — to pick up Vicky Vanderford , whom he had flown in from California . |
| 19 | His 38th-minute effort came straight from the dream factory , which was appropriate considering he had flown in from EuroDisney only three hours before kick-off . |
| 20 | He had retired early as lieutenant-colonel on inheriting the farm and wished the local people would drop the title . |
| 21 | He had shown Ash , whom he had met previously in Paris , sitting at his desk , in a three-quarters profile , in a carved mahogany chair . |
| 22 | Then , like lightning , he had dived in with fists flailing , thrown him to the ground , jumped straight on top of him and finished the fight by virtually knocking his brains out . |
| 23 | He had remained well until June 1992 , when he developed generalised lymphadenopathy and his doctors recommended that he should start zidovudine . |
| 24 | Although he was not as ill as he had made out to Elaine , he still felt a bit under the weather . |
| 25 | Dadda 's temper , that he had inherited along with Dadda 's darkness and Dadda 's height , had got the better of him and he had attacked her , physically attacked her . |
| 26 | Bob stayed away from home every evening , pursuing old Hitchcock films he had seen before to art cinemas in Kilburn , Tooting , and Putney , and eating cheaply in Indian and Cypriot restaurants . |
| 27 | A nurse in a pale blue designer trouser suit ( how unlike the dear old National Health ! ) gave Frank a dirty look , as he had rushed out in T-shirt , jeans and trainers . |
| 28 | There is so much of Keats that he admired — his pugnacity , his social concern , his gusto , his direct presentation of the moment 's phases of mind and moods of temperament — that one becomes aware of the impress of Thomas 's own mind and experience through his comments on Keats : ‘ Because he was then in the midst of his greatest period , and had to find vent for the pressure of poetry within him , he had to live away from Fanny Brawne , at Shanklin and Winchester : had he been near her long , at this time , love and poetry together , not to speak of the ‘ hateful literary chit-chat ’ of Hampstead , would have been insupportable . |
| 29 | ANDREW went on : ‘ At the beginning , he had clung constantly to Andre . |
| 30 | Even if direct physical assault was made impossible by the bars of the cages there was something about this sudden attack on Creggan that replaced the fear he had felt earlier with anger . |