Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were quite right about Ken Noakes — my experience with him had temporarily made me lose faith in men , and in myself . |
| 2 | When the door had opened to admit her , the waiting tension still gnawing at him had finally transformed itself into swift action , and he 'd been too busy quitting the bed and judging the right moment to attack to identify the intruder . |
| 3 | She was torn between a desire to hurt him , by releasing the hate and resentment which had been steadily accumulating inside her ever since he had casually annexed her mind and body , and a craven reluctance to precipitate their separation . |
| 4 | It 's best to let it out , ’ he said kindly , aware that he had rarely followed his own advice . |
| 5 | When Keith Vaughan left for a holiday in France in July 1948 , he had momentarily found himself alone at Hamilton Terrace and again reported to Edie on his progress . |
| 6 | He had momentarily closed his eyes , but now they snapped open . |
| 7 | He thought he had probably broken it , but there was little he could do at this time of night . |
| 8 | He had probably told her a lie of one sort or another every time they met . |
| 9 | He had probably invented them . |
| 10 | By withdrawing from the game he reveals the relativity and fragility of the play-world in which he had temporarily shut himself with others . |
| 11 | When Pc Black had found him in the toilets he said he had temporarily removed his glasses to wipe them , and that a friend who was there had brought them to him at the police station . |
| 12 | Jimmy apologised profusely , explaining , quite logically we thought , that he had temporarily had his eyes closed and had put the car into automatic pilot . |
| 13 | He had repeatedly exhorted his compatriots to stay united . |
| 14 | He had been a bright student , but his work had deteriorated over the past year , and he had thoroughly deserved his poor marks . |
| 15 | He had kindly invited us to what he called a light lunch , which consisted of an egg dish , lamb cutlets , a pudding , cheese and a dessert of frosted redcurrants , all served by a bearded butler and two footmen in naval battledress . |
| 16 | He had evidently forgiven my mimicry . |
| 17 | He regretted that Plato had not broken with the gods of the old cults and myths even though he had evidently known them to be false . |
| 18 | In the last few months he had consciously ingratiated himself with Joe , flattered him , let Joe think that he was grateful to him for giving him the breaker 's job . |
| 19 | Being the only military dentist in Nijmegen , he had willingly offered his service to all the assembled nationalities in Heumensoord camp . |
| 20 | The difficulty was that he had started work on the poem before he had adequately prepared himself , although his haste was understandable . |
| 21 | By grossly exaggerating the victim 's treatment of the accused in order to gain sympathy for the latter he had instead made it seem all the more likely that he had meant to kill . |
| 22 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 23 | The young man seemed embarrassed , as if he had said too much , though he had barely said anything . |
| 24 | He had barely noticed her raised eyebrows . |
| 25 | Looking again at Marcus she was horrified to see that he had again put his hand to his throat and was trembling . |
| 26 | Before touching the body he had briefly crossed himself . |
| 27 | Just as they had that other time when he had briefly held her , her senses were reacting with a will of their own . |
| 28 | For a year he had neither seen her nor permitted her name to be spoken in his hearing . |
| 29 | On sunless Beltanes he had invariably found himself alone there , but never on such a glorious evening as this . |
| 30 | Victory fell to the Roman commander Aetius , but only after he had desperately allied his legions with the forces of the Empire 's declared enemies , the invading Visigoths and Franks . |