Example sentences of "[conj] he had [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That took him back to the ‘ Nam , where he had joined up with the Summoner and later fought with the VC against the Ivans . |
| 2 | ‘ Boy ’ Mould had served in France with 1 Squadron in 1939/40 , where he had shot down the first German aircraft to be claimed by R.A.F. fighters over the Western Front ; he had over eight victories to his credit at this time . |
| 3 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 4 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 5 | The 1991 world champion , impressive during the 5–3 quarter-final success over James Wattana on Thursday , picked up where he had left off in the opening frame . |
| 6 | Collins was the other striking contributor within Scotland 's side , tirelessly continuing at international level where he had left off for his club in Saturday 's Old Firm game and looking unaffected by the demands of a workload which had caused wholesale disruption to the national team elsewhere . |
| 7 | Although he had kept up his reading — particularly in Greek and French — and written some stories for the Speaker , he believed his intellect had been let sleep . |
| 8 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 9 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |
| 10 | Later we learned that he had gone back to London and given a mischievous account of our conversation in literary circles , and we were ‘ very much blamed ’ . |
| 11 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 12 | Sean wished that he had gone down to Birdie Mac 's and knocked on the door for a bar of Kit-Kat , anything rather than face these two . |
| 13 | That was , of course , assuming that he had gone down on his own . |
| 14 | When Margaret finally foundered , some hoped that he had gone down with the ship , but here he was as buoyant as the Vicar of Bray . |
| 15 | What kind of a warning he could n't say , but his family noticed with alarm that he had gone out to consult the tree again . |
| 16 | She called ‘ Edward ? ’ , and then remembered that he had gone out with the ornithological group . |
| 17 | She did not enter the sitting-room again until she was certain that he had gone out . |
| 18 | The shocked driver assumed that he had run over and killed someone on the line , but on investigation there was no injured person to be found . |
| 19 | Now she listened eagerly for the word , and felt a twinge of disappointment whenever she heard ‘ dear ’ or ‘ Clare ’ instead , fearing that he had fallen out of love since the last ‘ darling ’ . |
| 20 | Richard 's mother thought it unreasonable that he had stayed out all night at a party . |
| 21 | The answer was that he had flown out quite coincidentally to attend a wedding . |
| 22 | He made several internal calls then announced , somewhat relieved , that he had tracked down the porter who had overseen the off-loading of the freight train the previous day . |
| 23 | I was so over-awed by the fact that he had sought out my company , that I was practically speechless . |
| 24 | Hastily he redirected his attention towards the circular screen that he had hung on the wall in place of an oil painting of some horned , scaly jungle monster . |
| 25 | Owen could believe that he had poured out all the wound and hurt that was in his heart when he spoke to Zoser . |
| 26 | Remember that he says he then , in his fright at what he had done , went to peer at his victim , and found that he had struck down the wrong man . |
| 27 | Tumbleweed inquired , eager to get things moving now that he had made up his mind . |
| 28 | Mrs Bridges maintained : ‘ Mr Newton admitted on Friday that he had made up his end of the story . |
| 29 | He had simply hesitated to take the plunge and stake on a worthwhile weekend with her , and it was pure chance that he had made up his mind just after he had learned her name . |
| 30 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |