Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 2 | Pat 's crater was a very good French brandy that he had probably scrounged from somewhere local , most likely the Chateau just along the road . |
| 3 | He had probably looked over the preparatory material which had already been published elsewhere , and sketched out the remaining chapters , during his period of convalescence in the late summer and autumn of 1947 . |
| 4 | At the end of his life he appears to have held the prestigious title of magister militum , an office he had probably held after Ricimer 's death in 472 . |
| 5 | ‘ Poorboy ! 'said Charlotte , suddenly outraged by the weariness and exasperation of this ineffectual little man , worn out by a job he had probably chosen as the most profitable within his scope , and now found to be extending him far beyond the end of his tether . |
| 6 | Overheads continued to be minimal when , after four months , he moved from Cheshire , where he had temporarily alighted for personal reasons , to Barnoldswick in Lancashire . |
| 7 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 8 | The latter also diverged from the Prime Minister , with whom he had latterly differed over Westland , Libya , and other issues . |
| 9 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 10 | He had barely glanced at her , and she had blurted out on the spur of the moment , ‘ Fine . |
| 11 | He had barely slept for days and his white face was dominated by his broad , dark eyebrows , which were locked together in an expression suggesting both grief and incomprehension . |
| 12 | He had barely slept after the meeting with the Consul from the Embassy and the escort of men in the khaki uniforms of the Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti had taken him still drowsy from the back seat to the train at a far platform . |
| 13 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 14 | In 1929 , he had again returned to a familiar theme , stressing that , while the establishment of a ‘ National Preservation ’ body was worthwhile , it was especially important that its attention be directed not merely to the countryside . |
| 15 | Devlin completes his lecture by returning to a question he had briefly considered at the beginning , and one which is central here ; that of the relationship between the Church and the moral order . |
| 16 | Suzuki admitted that he had received 10,000,000 yen from Abe which he had neither declared as a political donation nor as personal income , and Shiozaki acknowledged the receipt of 20,000,000 yen but denied that it had been a bribe . |
| 17 | Stirling felt this inferred that he had loosely prattled at a cocktail party , whereas the gatherings referred to were private dinner parties . |
| 18 | Edward 's brother-in-law became King Harold II , in 1066 , but he died later that same year at the Battle of Hastings , to whence he had travelled from Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire , where he had successfully defended against an invasion of Norwegians . |
| 19 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 20 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 21 | But to show he was independent and a big boy he had lately taken to spelling his name with a small letter : martin . |
| 22 | Ludens had been disturbed by the strange conversation which he had lately had with Marcus , by Marcus 's emotion , and by his own . |
| 23 | But he had since matured into an above average soldier and technician , talented , willing and desperate not to leave the army . |
| 24 | He had even gone to the Wimbledon police , but they had not seemed very interested . |
| 25 | Detectives involved in the murder inquiry had not been fooled by Green 's charade of wanting to help them — he had even appeared on TV with a tearful plea for aid in finding the killer . |
| 26 | He arrived in Gascony in September 1273 , for example , before he had even returned to England as king , to deal with the actions of Gaston VII , vicomte of Béarn , against his authority as duke of Aquitaine . |
| 27 | And , to add to that , he had even succeeded in making her feel guilty for her lack of hospitality ! |
| 28 | Sproull , in Gorthie 's opinion , was ‘ the most unacceptable man in the whole earth ’ , and in fact it does appear that the official was chiefly concerned with his own profits , for he had even interfered with the jurisdiction of the Duke of Montrose 's regality court of Lennox . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're looking at the next Sugar Ray , ’ I was assured by one youth before he had even sparred in training ! |
| 30 | He recalled with amazement , as if it were years ago , his first shocked vision of the adult Irina , the shaggy , sullen , unkempt ‘ gipsy ’ girl standing at the door of Red Cottage who had not spoken to him , and whom he had even conjectured to be mentally defective . |