Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 2 | And , to add to that , he had even succeeded in making her feel guilty for her lack of hospitality ! |
| 3 | ‘ You 're looking at the next Sugar Ray , ’ I was assured by one youth before he had even sparred in training ! |
| 4 | Looking up , he saw the astral form of Gunda , a shepherdess he had attempted to seduce and then killed , with Wolfhead , the faithful boarhound he had also killed in a fury . |
| 5 | He had also studied in Britain and married a British girl , although they have recently been divorced . |
| 6 | In his resignation speech , Gorbachev asserted that although he had been in favour of " the independence and self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of republics " , he had also believed in " preserving the union state and the country 's integrity " . |
| 7 | He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains . |
| 8 | The fact was , he had not felt in the book the impress of Walter Machin 's personality , as he had come to know it — or to think that he knew it . |
| 9 | The Countess of Tyrone was there too , as were the High Sheriff Mr Brian Thomas , Mr and Mrs Galen Weston , and their tall good-looking son Mr Galen Weston Jnr , who all flew from Windsor by helicopter ; and , who told me he had not played in England for ten years ! |
| 10 | The " ordinary reader " would infer that the " fixing " had involved the team as well as Packer , and that the captain of the team would have been party to the plot even though he had not played in the match . |
| 11 | Eugenius then tried to dissolve the Council he had not wanted in the first place . |
| 12 | If he had not fallen in love with Linda his male genitals would have been sculpted to mimic those of a female by a surgeon in Middlesbrough General Hospital some time next year . |
| 13 | He had not cashed in his winning ticket . |
| 14 | The other two men were taller , one lanky , with slow flapping hands as he walked — ; Miranda guessed he had not lived in London long . |
| 15 | The very fact that he held the parliamentarians partially responsible for the RPF 's demise suggests that he had not assumed in June 1951 that the Rassemblement was dead . |
| 16 | But he had not served in the Royal Marines for nothing . |
| 17 | Esther was no beauty , but she had a certain handsomeness about her , a particular wickedness he had not seen in other women . |
| 18 | Success , however , ruined its author , who took to strange clothes and beliefs and ‘ never wrote any more , but wasted the rest of his time trying to explain what he had and what he had not meant in John Inglesant' . |
| 19 | If he had not returned in twenty years his son , Don Benedetto , should inherit his lands and administer his fortune in the normal way . |
| 20 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 21 | He had never been to the Far East — in fact he had not fought in the War at all . |
| 22 | Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat . |
| 23 | Polybius could not have written his history as he did if he had not found in Rome an aristocracy which he could instinctively understand because he shared its attitude to life . |
| 24 | He had not parked in front of the house because he had no desire to draw attention to himself . |
| 25 | It dawns on me that if he had not succeeded in entering her then it is not legally rape . |
| 26 | Wijeratne 's other enemies included the Janata Vimukti Peramuna ( JVP ) , the Sinhalese group whose southern-based insurgency he had effectively destroyed in a ferocious campaign in late 1989 [ see pp. 37042 and 37353 ] , and the gambling industry , a casino operator having been deported in February . |
| 27 | Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files . |
| 28 | In 386 Ambrose moved relics he had just discovered in a Milan suburb to one of the new churches he had built to ring the growing city with prestigious sanctuaries ; it was a well thought out act . |
| 29 | He had just settled in his seat for the 10-hour journey from the Caribbean , when the captain called for a doctor . |
| 30 | He had just materialized in a certain top-secret room in the bad company of Dee and Kelley . |