Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] he had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nearly six months now he had gone to Father Michael at St Cunegonde 's for long , thrilling discussions about whether he had a vocation for the priesthood . |
| 2 | In Bagshaw [ 1988 ] Crim LR 321 , the accused intended to return gas cylinders when he had finished with them . |
| 3 | Several months previously he had applied through the usual channels for a commission in the RAF , with the idea at the back of his mind of getting back into flying . |
| 4 | He drove past the parks and gardens where he had played as a child ; past the houses of some of his past mistresses ; past the apartment where Clara Delluc lived . |
| 5 | For two days now he had sat in Isobel 's garage during most of school hours and planned his new book . |
| 6 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 7 | He might be a fat , wealthy merchant now but fifteen years ago he had fought as a knight , shoulder to shoulder with men who feared nothing on earth . |
| 8 | After a sex attack two years earlier he had said to the 40-year-old spinster that ‘ If you call the police I 'll kill you ’ . |
| 9 | Twenty-eight days earlier he had travelled to Dublin to transfer that sum to a second numbered account in Liechtenstein . |
| 10 | Reflecting in her vague kindly way that it was very nice for Jasper to have friends of his own age to play with in the holidays , a lot better than in the days when he had lived in that tower block in Walworth , she was still thinking along these lines as she entered the gateless gateway and found her eyes irresistibly turning upwards to the bell . |
| 11 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 12 | At his funeral Rev Leslie had to offer his arm as well as his heart to the young lady , who only six weeks previously he had married to Ivor . |
| 13 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 14 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 15 | Such a one was John Kirk of Bowmore , who kept a diary from the time he went to America in 1852 , before the Civil War , and gives a vivid account of his impressions of Canada , Boston , and sweat and slavery in the South , but only a short account of his later years when he had returned to Islay . |
| 16 | Mr Templeton said that minutes later he had spoken to a policeman who contradicted that information and said he had been told that there was someone in the building . |
| 17 | Twenty minutes earlier he had alighted from the Gloucester train at Berkeley station . |
| 18 | He hung on to his memories , walking alone on the Geest , past the streets and houses and dark alleys where he had walked with her that winter . |
| 19 | In plan after plan and page after page , Doctor Morris amended the estimates even he had given in articles previously published , and disputed various claims made for Aurae Phiala by other authorities . |
| 20 | According to the police , Fernandez told the investigating magistrates today he had trained for the past six months for the assault . |