Example sentences of "he had probably " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pat 's crater was a very good French brandy that he had probably scrounged from somewhere local , most likely the Chateau just along the road . |
| 2 | She did not know where he was now and she did not really care , but he had probably been the most influential person in her life : her handsome prince and Maggie 's father . |
| 3 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 4 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 5 | He had robbed Madge , he had hurt , even killed Bella and , worst of all , he had probably , knowing him , deprived her of Simon . |
| 6 | He was convinced he had probably cost Orrell the chance in the next 12 days of becoming England 's champion club for the first time . |
| 7 | Of these eight are from Miller and they give an insight into the work of the Chelsea Gardener when he had probably reached the peak of his career . |
| 8 | The doctors diagnosed that he had probably had a left-sided embolic stroke , and decided that he did not need surgery , so he was treated on the medical ward , where he remained for about seven months . |
| 9 | He had probably been trying something far too fancy . |
| 10 | In the first weeks of the year he had probably begun ‘ Christabel ’ , an ambitious medieval romance founded once more on supernatural events . |
| 11 | At forty-seven years of age , he was young enough that he could be expected to complete the work , and yet he had probably built more buildings than any of his close rivals . |
| 12 | Two or three years later he might suddenly be appointed a full-time magistrate , even though by that time he had probably forgotten all of the law which he had learnt . |
| 13 | After Courtney was sentenced , police revealed he had probably assaulted 100 women . |
| 14 | He had probably been seen with Jesus in and around Jerusalem . |
| 15 | But he had probably not read Arnauld , at any rate not before he wrote the Essay . |
| 16 | He had probably looked over the preparatory material which had already been published elsewhere , and sketched out the remaining chapters , during his period of convalescence in the late summer and autumn of 1947 . |
| 17 | Supported by the local community , he had probably been selected by them , for his appointment by the Company included a note that he had been teaching since Michaelmas 1533 . |
| 18 | I thought he had probably made an arrangement with a brothel-keeper , and sometimes I pictured him clinging to the branch of a tree peering in the darkness through the window of some schoolgirls ' dormitory . |
| 19 | He had probably told her a lie of one sort or another every time they met . |
| 20 | He had probably the nicest nature of any dog I ever owned , and possessed the loveliest eyes , brown in colour , and he was my dog definitely . |
| 21 | By 1624 he had probably become a client of George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , speaking strongly in favour of war with Spain , and in 1625 he was reported ‘ never out of my lord duke 's chamber and bosom ’ . |
| 22 | He had probably been worrying about his vocation . |
| 23 | Nobody had seen the prisoner for a fortnight , and we all thought that he had probably left the moor . |
| 24 | He had probably invented them . |
| 25 | So he had probably left exactly when he meant to leave , intending to attack Terry Place but being killed himself . |
| 26 | He had warned her that desire was all he had to offer her , and he had probably assumed that his warning had hit home . |
| 27 | ‘ Poorboy ! 'said Charlotte , suddenly outraged by the weariness and exasperation of this ineffectual little man , worn out by a job he had probably chosen as the most profitable within his scope , and now found to be extending him far beyond the end of his tether . |
| 28 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 29 | He had probably not even noticed her , a tall , rather too thin woman of thirty odd , with dark auburn hair . |
| 30 | But then , she thought acidly , he had probably never been young in his life ; some people were like that . |