Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 2 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 3 | He had grown up with the impression that women 's motives were suspect , and so when Tom Rooney had given him advice he had found it so easy to believe , because it was what — subconsciously — he expected . |
| 4 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 5 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 6 | Fei was not a native of the community that he studied ( the village of Kaihsienkung , in the Yangtze Delta , about 1 25 miles south-west of Shanghai ) , but he had grown up in the same district so that he was familiar with the nuances of the local dialect . |
| 7 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 8 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 9 | But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching . |
| 10 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 11 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 13 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 14 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 15 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 16 | He had given in about the purchase of the land , of course . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 18 | Calling out to him , she turned to the right , making for the side of the house furthest from Switham Thicket , for she had not forgotten a previous occasion when he had dashed off into the belt of trees . |
| 19 | Far away and long ago seemed the world after the War , into which he had emerged out of the army with the feeling that his vote and the new Labour Government would rebuild England . |
| 20 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 21 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 22 | This left Briton Derek Warwick , in a Footwork , in seventh place after he had spun off on the final lap in the rain . |
| 23 | He had to kneel down in the muddy track , damaging his trousers , reminding him of playground agonies ; he gripped , tugged , balanced . |
| 24 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 25 | As he did so , he remembered a line which almost forty years before he had struck out of the poem at Vivien 's insistence . |
| 26 | Vic flicks a switch on his telephone console and summons Shirley , whom he had gestured out of the office while Baxter was talking , to take some letters . |
| 27 | A day later , though , he called Susan to say he had checked out of the hospital . |
| 28 | Turning , she found Fernand at her side , as if he had risen out of the earth . |
| 29 | He had swivelled round in the armchair and was staring at me irritably . |
| 30 | David Arthur , 18 , of Blackstoun Avenue , Linwood , Renfrewshire , claimed during a trial that he had lashed out at the victim , Greig Mooney , 18 , with a broken umbrella he had found discarded in the street . |