Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 2 | He walked over to the rickety wooden gateway , drawing from his pocket a small jar he had purloined from Mait 's Bagi before Ace had blown it up . |
| 3 | He had broken through the picquet lines . |
| 4 | He had broken through the terror barrier , perhaps , and was in the dead calm state of mind that lies on the other side . |
| 5 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Paisley had supported him again once he had broken with the Official Unionists . |
| 8 | He had broken with his family long ago . |
| 9 | The Salinas government had hailed his arrest as a blow against corruption , but there was widespread speculation that Galicia was in fact being targeted because he had broken with the PRI during the 1988 elections . |
| 10 | In other words , he had broken with the model after their blink-of-the-eye affair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 13 | He had grown into a slim blond young man , slightly ashen from his long hospital hours , a little frenzied and erratic in his gestures which spoke of bouts of sleeplessness and an adrenaline-fuelled energy . |
| 14 | He had grown without her . |
| 15 | At least he had grown beyond the need to despise people in order to give himself stature . |
| 16 | He had grown to be a mighty warrior , a great sorcerer and an excellent general . |
| 17 | Asshe himself sat in the midst , the long grey beard he had grown for Lear spreading out abundantly , his white hair wild as though on the blasted heath . |
| 18 | He had grown around him a shell because a shell was necessary . |
| 19 | He watched in anxious silence as I ran a hand over the repairs he had begun on Masquerade . |
| 20 | Lately , however , he had begun to be curious about her — almost against his will . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 23 | He had begun by putting Maldita in a stable with no straw and taking water and feed to her every eight hours , then , when she went for him , immediately removing them . |
| 24 | He had begun by studying the photographs for two hours , before he even touched the cadaver itself . |
| 25 | He had begun by characterizing the struggle for an energy policy as the ‘ moral equivalent of war ’ , but then , for long periods , his enthusiasm for this cause appeared to wane while his proposals floundered in the legislative maze . |
| 26 | In the United States , he had begun by setting up a small press which published German writers in translation , books which kept the Germany he knew alive . |
| 27 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 28 | He showed us the research he had begun in Pembrokeshire , and we were so amazed at what he had discovered that we encouraged him to continue all over Wales . |
| 29 | Wilson therefore regularized a practice he had begun in 1964 when outsiders such as Professors Nicholas Kaldor and Robert Neild had been recruited into the Treasury , a practice which Heath had followed on a smallish scale . |
| 30 | He had begun in 1833 to work also on 10 plates for Gould 's Monograph of Toucans , a single volume of 34 plates on a single species similar to Lear 's own original Parrot publication , and which was to finish in the same year , 1835 , as the Birds of Europe . |