Example sentences of "[coord] he had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was either trying to force Jesus ' hand to make him fight or he had become so disappointed in Jesus that he acted out of bitterness . |
| 2 | Philip had been slow to move and he had gained little by coronation by such a lowly archbishop as Tarentaise — Trier , Salzburg , Bremen and Magdeburg were all unavailable . |
| 3 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 4 | Kronweiser 's suspicions were set at rest , and he had gone back to the States . |
| 5 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 6 | ’ And he had gone off to brew up a kettle of some herbal concoction , which he had said would do wonders for the men 's aching joints after the long march . |
| 7 | But then , afterwards , I learned that the other members of the party had accepted him as a bachelor and he had gone along with that . ’ |
| 8 | His equanimity was legendary amongst his colleagues and he had gone out of his way to make her feel a part of the team when she first arrived at UNACO . |
| 9 | Patrick too was watching the shops go by , remembering the last time he had walked down them , it had been early in 1916 , and he had gone out with Mickey — God Rest Him — to buy his mother an Easter gift . |
| 10 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 11 | Dora had told him that Miss Alexandra was but a month short of her twenty-second birthday and he had gone out of the kitchen , scratching his head in disbelief . |
| 12 | Puddephat had given evidence , saying Melanie Gandell had been one of his brightest students , and he had gone out of his way to encourage her academically as a result . |
| 13 | He had fought with Pearse in the GPO in 1916 , where he had acquitted himself honourably , and he had risen swiftly through the ranks . |
| 14 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 15 | Ketura had neglected to include the information that Amber would also be present , and he had felt strangely disappointed when he realised Jeopardy was not alone . |
| 16 | And he had felt so light , so sure-footed , so approved , so anchored . |
| 17 | It had been a strange experience and he had felt how different this magical rite seemed compared with the church services he remembered from home . |
| 18 | He was too close to his rooms for comfort , and he had achieved absolutely nothing . |
| 19 | He was tired and fanciful and he had drunk too much beer . |
| 20 | And he had turned up alone at Emma Chisholm 's house … |
| 21 | They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting . |
| 22 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 23 | He was a little surprised at how much pleasure the prospect gave him ; the sense of frustration and failure which had dogged him when he first arrived in England had disappeared almost without his realizing it and he had become enormously restive . |
| 24 | This latter was , at 682 minutes , the longest Test innings ever played for West Indies , and he had become so becalmed towards the end that his captain declared before he reached his double century . |
| 25 | The driver was from the Colonel 's staff , and he had travelled ahead a full month before so that he knew the city , the back-doubles they might need and the side streets . |
| 26 | And he had said again , ‘ I kiss your hand . ’ |
| 27 | Lugh had never thought it a good idea , and he had said so at the time , only nobody had listened . |
| 28 | the berries had been his discovery , after all , and he had eaten hardly a dozen . |
| 29 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 30 | Perhaps — no , not perhaps , but because McAllister , with all her youthful ebullience and charm , was in his house , she had revived something in him which he did not want to feel and he had called up the demon to assuage it — no , to kill it . |