Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 2 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 3 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 4 | Perhaps he 'd already settled down under his blanket when Berowne arrived . |
| 5 | He and Kenneth started conversing using no fewer than five-syllable words before he 'd even got out of the car , and have been rabbiting happily like two philatelists over a rare collection . |
| 6 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 7 | Perhaps he 'd just slipped out of her , and located her anus by mistake . |
| 8 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 9 | Louis looked as though he 'd just got up off the ground after being knocked out in a fight . |
| 10 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 11 | He 'd never settled back into civilian life , and after telling his family at Wood Burcote in Northamptonshire that he was going camping in France , wrote to say he 'd enlisted with the Croats . |
| 12 | He 'd never got round to mending the hole . |
| 13 | He 'd never got around to closing the deadlock . |
| 14 | He 'd never spoken directly to the man in all his seventeen years . |
| 15 | He 'd admitted early on that he 'd never looked closely at goats before . |
| 16 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 17 | moved out he 'd flipping shacked up with someone else had n't he ? |
| 18 | He seemed more caught up with this coincidence than interested in the school he had come to see , Sara decided . |
| 19 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 20 | She had not made Dan go , he had practically run out of her life . |
| 21 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 22 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 23 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 26 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |