Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] he [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true that she had literally brought him back from the dead . |
| 2 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 3 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |
| 4 | It was the first time that Kirov had ever seen him out of uniform . |
| 5 | The Campbells steamer his mother had once taken him on for a day trip to Ilfracombe . |
| 6 | Not only had we beaten him on the ridge , but without cars we had unwittingly beaten him back to the hotel . |
| 7 | Once they must have been dead level , but not for long It was Student Cross that had really swept him out of her reach . |
| 8 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 9 | He was rewarded by the happiness which showed in Pam 's eyes , when he told her he was quite sure she had indeed called him back from the brink of death . |
| 10 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |