Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 2 | He had evidently made up his mind not to argue with anyone while on leave , and Sarah told Anne that his family thought that she was a good influence on him . |
| 3 | She had not made Dan go , he had practically run out of her life . |
| 4 | He had practically made up his mind that he would never go back — certainly not to Moyalla and probably not to teaching . |
| 5 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 6 | He had neither glanced down nor passed a fingertip over the edges of the leaves , to determine how far advanced in the book his page might be . |
| 7 | He had either bailed out too low or his parachute had malfunctioned . |
| 8 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 9 | ( For " The Dry Salvages " he had even written out lists of rhyming words to assist him . ) |
| 10 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 11 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 12 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 13 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 14 | He glanced towards Grégoire , knowing that happiness sprang from him ; he had brought Edouard love ; he had also given back to him a sense of purpose . |
| 15 | He had also clocked up 34 years as a retained firefighter when he retired from that job two years ago . |
| 16 | He had also carried out several town planning improvements in London , but early in 1856 with the appointment by Hall of Henry Arthur Hunt ( 1810–89 ) to the new post of Surveyor of the Works and Public Buildings , he found that his duties had been drastically curtailed . |
| 17 | He had notionally divided up the Iranian government into a fanatic wing , an extremely fanatic wing , a bridge group and a ‘ right-wing group ’ that leaned towards the West . |
| 18 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 19 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 20 | It had taken Carlson some time but he believed that he had finally worked out who was responsible for the ritualistic murders on the planet . |
| 21 | Perhaps the authorities thought that he had finally knuckled under . |
| 22 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 23 | Thankful that he had finally got through . |
| 24 | As he had finally got back to Mrs Lorimer 's and was washing his face , he was wondering how much of the dirty water of the drug scene had washed over Rose and Steve . |
| 25 | It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her . |
| 26 | Exhausted by the long words and the morning 's adventure in the corridors he had soon drifted off to sleep . |
| 27 | He had thus paid off the princes and the pope . |
| 28 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 29 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 30 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |