Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been waiting outside his office for the best part of three hours when his secretary came to tell her that he 'd just phoned in . |
| 2 | Something must have told him that he 'd not said quite the right thing , for he looked at Zeinab uneasily afterwards . |
| 3 | There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up . |
| 4 | But he rode hard to the end of the track and when he reached Baby Boy 's white cross he hesitated , then he turned right , into the mountains , something that he 'd never done before . |
| 5 | He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before . |
| 6 | The sheep had gone strangely quiet and there was a queer thundering noise that he 'd never heard before . |
| 7 | He 'd admitted early on that he 'd never looked closely at goats before . |
| 8 | They did work in er two worked in two different quarries but within a week or a fortnight that young lad approached one of our members and said he 's sorry that he 'd ever gone back and I said to him well come back and join us and forget it all . |
| 9 | It was as though she had died again , only it was worse , and he felt guilty that he had n't wept properly when she 'd really died . |
| 10 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 11 | ‘ Are you ? ’ he said absently , and Belinda could see at once that Marise was disappointed that he had n't played along . |
| 12 | Apart from some dark patches on the wall that he had n't noticed before , there was nothing to see . |
| 13 | Odd that he had n't noticed how long the fingers were or with what apparent gentleness they had taped the plastic bags over the girl 's hand to preserve , as he had tonelessly explained , conscientious in his role of instructor , any evidence under the fingernails . |
| 14 | It took her a moment to realize that she 'd expected Daak to add his comment , and that he had n't done so . |
| 15 | There was so much , Brian thought , that he had n't seen before . |
| 16 | Jack suddenly remembered that he had n't sought out Ho Chan at school ; he had n't even thought about it . |
| 17 | After that , he 'd headed for a street in north-west London that he had n't visited in over a year . |
| 18 | When the man saw this , he began to walk more quickly , then to run , as if triggered by some vulnerability in Nicola that he had n't found before . |
| 19 | He kept thinking of how his Mum and Dad would be when they found out he was n't back , that he had n't come home with either of them . |
| 20 | In the defence of Verdun , it will be recalled , de Castelnau had already rendered an invaluable service in the ‘ Intermediary Line ’ , hastily constructed as a result of his coup d'oeil in January , and — had there been time for the completion of the Third Position that he had also prescribed then — there seems a chance that the German breakthrough on the 24th might have been prevented altogether . |
| 21 | Mr Mackie agreed that all three men had been quite happy to have the injection administered by Murray and that he had also consented whenever Murray had injected him with drugs . |
| 22 | It was much more , he thought as he moved the boiling pan off the stove and on to the floor , trying to ignore the unholy smell of bleach that came off it as it sloshed against the sides of the vessel , that he had simply woken up one morning and realized , to use a phrase a friend had used about someone else 's wife , ‘ what he had got hold of ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thankful that he had finally got through . |
| 25 | Perhaps the authorities thought that he had finally knuckled under . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness . |
| 28 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 29 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 30 | And how were they to know that he had not wanted very much ? or was that to be his real pleasure ? |