Example sentences of "and [v-ing] he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had pulled her down with him into the whirlpool of love , and now that she was submerged and drowning he had left her , escaping through the cloaking mist that hung over the water . |
| 2 | Colour flooded her cheeks as she realised he was accusing her of posing and denying he had had anything to do with it . |
| 3 | The noise from the shore was much greater : a familiar hiss and booming he had heard often before with a big tide on the make , but muffled now because of the deafening sound of the wind . |
| 4 | She thought of him , of how he must feel now , mourning his dead sister and wishing he had had some last word from her ; and then , how she would give him Mrs Gotobed 's message , to comfort him . |
| 5 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 6 | Then she telephoned Eliot at home and after that was about to leave when Shildon came , apologetic and saying he had met somebody who had delayed him . |
| 7 | Coleridge — mercurial , brilliant , and prodigiously well read — opened to Poole the world of thought and learning he had longed to discover since boyhood . |
| 8 | We thought he was wasting his time after all the hard work and studying he had done , ’ says Brian Gedge . |