Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , in his will , he directed that an envelope he had deposited with the firm should be opened after his death and the instructions he had given in it carried out . |
| 2 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 3 | The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm . |
| 4 | He might have done this a good deal earlier if he had wanted for it was completely blank . |
| 5 | Waiting to see what he had made of it all . |
| 6 | His face , however , was smeared by the dabbings he had made at it with a stupendously dirty handkerchief . |
| 7 | What I found less acceptable was his desire to chisel every character into the precise image he had conceived of it . |
| 8 | He had seen to it that each and every boy found his way into a suitable occupation . |
| 9 | He had seen to it that his spare flesh should not go soft with time , or lose its springy vigour ; but the years had revenged themselves as best they could . |
| 10 | He had asked for it to be so . |
| 11 | He had asked for it . |
| 12 | Pearce expressed surprise and said that this was the first he had heard of it . |
| 13 | Wickham looked at Marshall who said it was the first he had heard of it either . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that Eliot would have taken the trouble to defend Kipling against the charge of race superiority if he had believed in it himself . |
| 15 | By the time that he had battled through it was too late . |
| 16 | For Edward , India had lost the only element he had liked in it — the easy affection of the Indians that he had taken for granted as a child — and gained nothing in compensation . |
| 17 | He could not therefore help but rise to the occasion , as he had risen to it before . |
| 18 | Although he had marvelled at it many times , Ludovico had never become blase about the stupendous vista from the Villa Battista and its famous terrace that ran the whole length of the low , pale yellow house . |
| 19 | In fact he had worried about it so much that he felt now that he had done it all . |
| 20 | If he had enquired into it , he would have discovered that there are examples among Huguenot families of names changing in that way , but that nobody named Craingeau or Gringaud or anything else that might sound like Cranko is listed among the Huguenot settlers in South Africa . |
| 21 | Even so , it had taken some little effort on his part , for here was this relatively obscure relation who had fallen into an estate , which , although small , was of no mean value , and he had fallen into it by a series of dead men 's shoes . |
| 22 | It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all . |
| 23 | It was patently clear to all that Samuel Pipkin could have poisoned the water after he had drunk from it , if indeed he had drunk from it at all . |
| 24 | If he had drunk from it , the wounds received in his last dreadful battle against his nephew Mordred would have healed . |
| 25 | It was only after he had reached for it that he realized he was carrying my groceries around . |
| 26 | He had been to the top in the past and when asked why he had decided against it today , he said : ‘ I was exhausted ! ’ |
| 27 | He had planned for it ; it had been expected ; it was just another episode of the unreal bureaucratic adventures in which he seemed to picture himself . |
| 28 | Savory argued that a stranger to whom money had been paid in breach of trust could only be held liable as a constructive trustee to account for the money after he had parted with it , if it could be shown that he knew the money misapplied was trust money . |
| 29 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 30 | Anyone who handled the King 's money was ‘ charged ’ with the revenues he had received or collected and had to acquit himself before the Barons of the Exchequer by showing what he had done with it . |