Example sentences of "that he [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " 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 | There was a silver cigarette lighter in the desk drawer , he remembered , rarely used now that he 'd almost given up . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thankful that he had finally got through . |
| 7 | Perhaps the authorities thought that he had finally knuckled under . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Are we to assume then that he had now switched over from being an evangelist and was a deliberate artist in the making , out in the open for all to see ? |
| 12 | On May 28 , President Cesár Gaviria Trujillo stated that he had virtually ruled out any possibility of reaching an agreement with the guerrillas , and that the actions of the armed forces were aimed at " wiping them out " . |
| 13 | When Bovet won the prize it was noted that he had never taken out a patent in his own name or sought to make a penny from the commercial expoitation of his research . |
| 14 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 15 | As a young radio announcer he had shown a talent for communication that he had subsequently built on during his years in Hollywood and it was also during this period that politics became a consuming interest . |