Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 2 | He had indeed already announced two forthcoming lecture courses on ancient philosophy ( on the Presocratics and on Plato ) and could also point to work he had published in this field ( on Diogenes Laertius ) . |
| 3 | It seemed he had left in the Casa Guidi a gun of which he was fond , taking only his hunting rifle in case he had the chance to go into the country to shoot rabbits . |
| 4 | Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first . |
| 5 | Whatever hurts he had suffered in the past , with his Leo open-heartedness , he was one of nature 's true romantics . |
| 6 | He was the defence correspondent of his paper and I was n't surprised to hear he 'd served in the military . |
| 7 | Kaas had said nothing , had just wondered what they would say about his public image if they ever discovered the extent of the terrorist acts he had unleashed in the last few months . |
| 8 | Before the offensive began he had tried in vain to impress this upon his superiors . |
| 9 | D'Aubigny sensed he had triumphed in this repartee and stood up , smiling kindly at us . |
| 10 | Grant sensed he had succeeded in needling his opponent and tensed himself in readiness . |
| 11 | He picked up an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival , assembled a band behind him and played loud enough to raise the roofbeams — just like he had done in his high-school days . |
| 12 | He had insisted on going with her but Carrie was beginning to wish he had stayed in the shop . |
| 13 | It was it stuck he got killed in February . |
| 14 | At the time , Peter Alliss said it was the longest drive he 'd seen in his life . |
| 15 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 16 | Spring and Wimbledon were still here , even if at times he felt he had landed in a foreign country . |
| 17 | She referred to one pupil 's piece of writing which described what he thought he had learned in the first session with the advisory teacher : |
| 18 | He thought he had got in just about everything and moved on . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought he got killed in the Second World War ! ’ |
| 20 | When in 1952 Michael Ventris announced he had succeeded in deciphering Linear B and that it was an archaic form of Greek , howls of indignant refutation were raised by the fraternity of linguistic experts as a matter of course , and when , with that beautiful sense of timing which nemesis has , a whole library of Linear B tablets was unearthed in Pylos on the Greek mainland one year later , translations of which confirmed Ventris 's conclusion , the experts did the only thing they could under the circumstances : they accused the discoverer and Ventris of having forged them . |
| 21 | Pascoe realized he 'd spoken in a whisper . |
| 22 | I think he got punched in the head . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish he 'd stayed in there because we wanted to beat him runnin' , not broken . |
| 24 | He had been visiting her home and when he left he had slipped in the yard , et cetera . |
| 25 | Samuel Reichmann , the father of the multi-billionaire sons , had done what Klein said he had done in Tangier . |
| 26 | Michael Stewart , the managing director of Scallop Kings , said he had dived in Loch Crinan and the area was devoid of scallops . |
| 27 | One of the permanent shopkeepers said he had lived in Paris — but preferred the saner lifestyle of the Nfis . |
| 28 | He had spoken with Norman Tebbit who , when asked his movements that evening , said he had discovered in Hove a pub called the ‘ Earl of Essex ’ where he was going for a noggin . |
| 29 | He said he had fought in vain to control his bike as he hurtled through Mathers Cross , which leads the riders towards Portrush and into the fastest section of the nine-mile long circuit . |
| 30 | Bernard particularly enjoyed the dinner when he served his aristocratic French guests with wine from some dusty old bottles he said he had found in the cellar . |