Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coupled with a wave of popular sympathy for Gaddafi as a bereaved father , resentment at what was seen as Washington 's bully-boy tactics appeared to have rallied the Libyans behind him with a solidarity he had rarely enjoyed before . |
| 2 | Loretta reminded herself that telling stories was part of his job , and he had probably heard much worse than this in his time . |
| 3 | He was glad Rebel had gone off towards the road , though he had probably run back by now for the loaf . |
| 4 | We thought that he had probably found just eight such examples out of a total of 1,000 . |
| 5 | So he had probably left exactly when he meant to leave , intending to attack Terry Place but being killed himself . |
| 6 | But he had skilfully pacified even the most vociferous of dissenters . |
| 7 | By the time he let her catch him , Claire had forgotten what he 'd said , and he had temporarily forgotten why he said it . |
| 8 | With that she said no more but dropped down to her shelter and took up some food , an action that told Creggan he had best get on with it and ask no more questions . |
| 9 | He had evidently made up his mind not to argue with anyone while on leave , and Sarah told Anne that his family thought that she was a good influence on him . |
| 10 | The Emperor Domitian condemned him , so he had evidently seemed so , to a Roman . |
| 11 | She had not made Dan go , he had practically run out of her life . |
| 12 | He had practically made up his mind that he would never go back — certainly not to Moyalla and probably not to teaching . |
| 13 | He had barely addressed more than a few brief and studiously polite words to her — and yet every fibre of her being was vibrantly aware of his magnetic , almost menacing presence . |
| 14 | He sent most of his staff into the embassy vault where they set about burning and shredding the classified papers that remained ( he had most shipped out of the country already ) , destroying the cryptographic equipment and dismantling the controlling element in the satellite communications station . |
| 15 | He had neither remained discreetly silent , nor had he made any attempt to explain in public the reasons for his resignation . |
| 16 | He had neither glanced down nor passed a fingertip over the edges of the leaves , to determine how far advanced in the book his page might be . |
| 17 | A long-time adherent to the general principle that he should look around and see areas where he could help , or stir up some kind of improvement , he had lately become more willing to risk controversy . |
| 18 | Willie longed desperately to be in Mrs Hartridge 's class even though he had since grown quite fond of Mrs Black . |
| 19 | He had either bailed out too low or his parachute had malfunctioned . |
| 20 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
| 21 | To add insult to injury , he had even turned down paying pupils in order to give free lessons to Aloysia ; and with supreme lack of tact he even described how he had begun an aria for the tenor Raaff , only to turn it into one for Aloysia instead . |
| 22 | ( For " The Dry Salvages " he had even written out lists of rhyming words to assist him . ) |
| 23 | He had even come there to look at the river at low tide , it was in Ellen Ash 's Journal , they had brought a picnic of chicken and parsley pie . |
| 24 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 25 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 26 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 27 | Once he had even got as far as adding ‘ before you … ’ and then tailed off into his private grumbles . |
| 28 | In the defence of Verdun , it will be recalled , de Castelnau had already rendered an invaluable service in the ‘ Intermediary Line ’ , hastily constructed as a result of his coup d'oeil in January , and — had there been time for the completion of the Third Position that he had also prescribed then — there seems a chance that the German breakthrough on the 24th might have been prevented altogether . |
| 29 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 30 | Mr Mackie agreed that all three men had been quite happy to have the injection administered by Murray and that he had also consented whenever Murray had injected him with drugs . |