Example sentences of "he had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the three years since he had broken through as a pop star , Kylie has constructed a network of companies to handle her affairs . |
| 2 | Mandarin lost several lengths and — much worse — he had broken down in the tendons of one of his forelegs . |
| 3 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 4 | He had grown up with a love of the countryside . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | By temperament and experience he was equipped to deal with the race of Men , and as a native of Lothern he had grown up with an understanding of the worth of trade and a tolerant cosmopolitan outlook on the world . |
| 7 | He had grown up in a quasi-syndicalist tradition in the Liverpool docks , and his influence in the sixties had been thrown behind the growth of the shop-stewards movement and local plant bargaining on a devolved basis very much on the lines of the 1968 Donovan Report . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 12 | He had stayed on during the war only because so many doctors had been away , engaged in service to the country . |
| 13 | She had run the country for 11 years ; and he had coasted along to a fourth Conservative victory on the back of her achievements . |
| 14 | But he had swung round at the sound of a vehicle approaching . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 18 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 21 | He had given in about the purchase of the land , of course . |
| 22 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 23 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 24 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 29 | Not just Giles 's spite-filled revenge , but the expression in Nathan Bryce 's eyes as he had gazed down from the dais . |
| 30 | Jeans cut off thigh-high to make shorts and a T-shirt he had made out of an old man 's vest he had bought for 20p in a sale under the arches at Charing Cross Station and dyed green and yellow . |