Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had also become closely attached whilst at Cambridge to the family of his married sister Susanna Collett , who lived nearby and delighted in the entertainment of scholars from the University . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | He had also clocked up 34 years as a retained firefighter when he retired from that job two years ago . |
| 34 | He had also put forward basic structural ideas about the monosaccharides , suggesting the five and six-membered ring structures , furanosides and pyranosides which are still sometimes referred to as Haworth formulae and appear in every organic chemistry text today . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 38 | But he had finally done so and had seen other eagles , each in his own cage , all mature , all seeming big and threatening . |
| 39 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Perhaps the authorities thought that he had finally knuckled under . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Thankful that he had finally got through . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | Exhausted by the long words and the morning 's adventure in the corridors he had soon drifted off to sleep . |
| 47 | He had thus paid off the princes and the pope . |
| 48 | He was acting — he had just said so . |
| 49 | ‘ 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 . |
| 50 | He looked as if he had just stepped straight out of one of those bespoke tailors in Saville Row in London 's West End . |
| 51 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | He had just fired up and sat down to rest . |
| 54 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 55 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 56 | He was not available for comment , however , as he had just flown off to Australia . |
| 57 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 58 | He had just come in from sketching workmen out on the Geest , where they were laying water and gas pipes . |
| 59 | He could not believe what he had just lived through . |
| 60 | He had just turned away from us and read a book . |