Example sentences of "[adv] he had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly he had picked an immense , fifteen-barrelled pistol out of the pile rejected by the Collector . |
| 2 | Suddenly he had crossed the gap between them . |
| 3 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 4 | Her good humour somewhat restored , she stifled a laugh : however much he had wanted to see her again , Geoffrey 's enthusiasm had not lasted the course of the evening . |
| 5 | Iron Josh also had his instinct and it told him that , no matter how much he had tried to hide the fact that he was worried , Bertha had guessed . |
| 6 | When he presented a complete pantomime , which naturally he had devised , directed , co-composed and co-designed , he could offer a weekly wage for an average of seventy-five artistes in each show . |
| 7 | She had been necessary , but despised , so naturally he had discarded her the moment she was no longer necessary to him , and their single sexual collision was all it had taken to free him . |
| 8 | Naturally he had associated her remark with Hugh , whereas she had been recalling her dream , the dream in which Fen had appeared as the waiting bridegroom . |
| 9 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 10 | Apparently he had mistaken the small man in jeans for the window cleaner he had sent for . |
| 11 | Apparently he had quarrelled with Survage too , although he does not explain why . |
| 12 | Apparently he had become addicted to it and the gradual disintegration of William was at last explained . |
| 13 | Apparently he had become nothing more than this , forage for commonplace family small talk . |
| 14 | Apparently he had talked to no-one in the A.R.R. Unit . |
| 15 | Apparently he had told my mother and grandmother on Friday evening while they were having their meal . ’ |
| 16 | Apparently he had expected that his explanation would be taken as an insult . |
| 17 | He knew that basically he had enjoyed the careful battle of wits . |
| 18 | Hitherto he had felt such a step to be premature , and one that might dangerously provoke the USSR . |
| 19 | Since Hitler 's accession to the German chancellorship in January 1933 , Stalin had concluded that international fascism , which hitherto he had interpreted as the herald of capitalist collapse , posed a threat after all , not only to the left within European countries but also to the survival of the Soviet Union itself . |
| 20 | She realized by his use of the word ‘ they ’ instead of ‘ we ’ that he was not a native of the place , and wondered how long he had lived there . |
| 21 | She could n't remember now how long he had held her imprisoned , only that it seemed an eternity of immeasurable time . |
| 22 | For so long he had wondered if he would ever walk abroad again . |
| 23 | Before long he had switched to ukulele , and graduated from there to guitar at the age of eleven . |
| 24 | Before long he had invented a new science called Gastrotechnology , which he defined simply as the scientific explanation of accepted principles of cookery . |
| 25 | For how long he had dwelt there Allen was unable to find out . |
| 26 | The talk at the Dôme and Rotonde struck him as far more amusing than his lessons at the Lycée and before long he had dropped out of school . |
| 27 | If only he had made his move six years earlier , during the rehearsed reading of Martin Finkelstein 's verse play These Be Wasted Years , Brother ! |
| 28 | Hindsight is all very well , but if only he had sent his London package by regular mail … . |
| 29 | If only he had acceded to that suggestion of hers ! |
| 30 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |