Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A contrasting case is Watson [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 865 ( CA ) : the jury were to take into account the knowledge of the victim 's age and ( frail ) condition which he had acquired after he had broken into her house . |
| 2 | He had broken with his family long ago . |
| 3 | It was the 15th bone he had broken in his career and it is now held together by two bolts and an 18-inch steel pin . |
| 4 | He had grown without her . |
| 5 | He had grown around him a shell because a shell was necessary . |
| 6 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 7 | Since his return he had stayed in his own office with Detective-Superintendent Mercer of the local C.I.D . |
| 8 | He had apologised for his wife 's absence . |
| 9 | He had cast in his lot with England , and there was no going back . |
| 10 | He lived alone , and anonymously , in a one-room fiat on a soon to be condemned estate close to the Elephant and Castle , an address he had given to nobody , not even his employer . |
| 11 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 12 | IN his last letter to Ashcroft Noble , Edward tried to express his thanks to the dying man for the new direction he had given to his life : |
| 13 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 14 | But by the end of last year Mr Yanagitani had lost so much money that he was unable to honour the investment guarantees he had given to his clients . |
| 15 | The Tretyakov Gallery would release hundreds of the works that he had given from its stores , and then the museum of the Russian Avant-garde would open . |
| 16 | So , in his will , he directed that an envelope he had deposited with the firm should be opened after his death and the instructions he had given in it carried out . |
| 17 | Despite several inconsistencies with the account which he had given in his November testimony [ see pp. 39191-92 ] , he steadfastly refused to accede to the growing demands for his resignation . |
| 18 | A 100-YEAR-OLD man was assaulted and robbed yesterday as he walked to the bank to deposit £1,450 he had saved for his funeral . |
| 19 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 20 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 21 | It is plain from his private correspondence that , even if he had discovered by himself the mechanism by which species diverge , he had no intention of publishing until after his death . |
| 22 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 23 | Dexter looked up expectantly , a loop of ash dangling from the end of the cigarette he had lit in her absence . |
| 24 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 25 | The same little girl who he had loved like his own , who had waved wildly at him until the train had disappeared around the bend . |
| 26 | The account he had written of his experiences at Waimea on 18 January 1985 had won a prize . |
| 27 | In this case , a computer programmer developed a computer program which was similar to one he had written for his previous employer . |
| 28 | He had written to me every week when he could , and I was longing to see him again . |
| 29 | He said he had written to everyone who had included an address , explaining that the problem in the dress circle was due to the original structure of the theatre . |
| 30 | ‘ You have never done me anything but good , and I love you tenderly , ’ he had written to her soon before her death . |