Example sentences of "had [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 2 | Eddie 's eyes had filled with tears . |
| 3 | She was shaking and her mouth had filled with saliva . |
| 4 | He was quick to comfort her , for her blue eyes had filled with tears . |
| 5 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 6 | She knew perfectly well he 'd been trying to hide the fact that he 'd come alive as the streets had filled with people . |
| 7 | Louise 's eyes had filled with tears and she had gripped Zoe 's arm hard . |
| 8 | The dust blew round his feet and often he rubbed his eyes because they had filled with water . |
| 9 | So she remained in her place and someone always had to remain with her . |
| 10 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 11 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 12 | With these resignations by Mahmut Alinak and Mahmut Uyanik the SHP now contributed only 70 seats to the ruling coalition which it had formed with the True Path Party ( DYP ) [ see also pp. 38739 ; 38873 ] . |
| 13 | She had found herself , at one stage , lightly stroking the back of her hand across her breast , and had jumped with guilt . |
| 14 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 15 | So whereas he had treated with the pro-English party in Scotland in the first half of 1543 , in 1544 it was the pro-French faction which was uppermost in his mind . |
| 16 | Meg did not think for that — foul wash , the tinker boy ; his thing ; he had roared with laughter — as just or justifiable . |
| 17 | She could confess , absolve and advise two erring lovers in the same weekend without either of them knowing that the other had collaborated with her in engineering their reunion . |
| 18 | He and his friends had collaborated with the Japs , but had quickly seen that the independence granted to Burma was fictitious and that the Burmese people were being exploited for Japanese imperialism . |
| 19 | The practical reason was that because we had collaborated with the Russian museums for earlier exhibitions we were able to make an agreement and bring together our collections with theirs . |
| 20 | Fundamental to everything was the bitter experience of Japanese colonialism and the determination to eliminate the legacy of that experience together with those who had collaborated with the Japanese . |
| 21 | The CPKI issued a statement on 28 August advocating radical reform and ‘ mass struggle against the anti-democratic and reactionary forces ’ which had collaborated with Japan ‘ and committed crimes against the nation ’ . |
| 22 | Of the ten most active fellows ( including Robert Boyle , Jonathan Goddard , Henry Oldenburg , William Petty , John Wilkins , Lord Brouncker , Walter Charleton , John Evelyn , Sir Robert Moray , and Christopher Wren ) , the first five had collaborated with the parliamentarian regime , suggesting a higher proportion of puritan involvement than that indicated by the larger sample . |
| 23 | We were greatly influenced by the work of the FMS and some of us had collaborated with that organization back in 1968 during the teachers ' massive strike . |
| 24 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 25 | In the prevailing atmosphere , those who had collaborated with Japan were traitors . |
| 26 | Stewart 's most important work was on radiant heat ; at the Kew Observatory he had collaborated with Warren de la Rue on sunspot investigations . |
| 27 | Bouterse claimed that Shankar had collaborated with the Netherlands government to humiliate him by failing to lodge a diplomatic protest when , on three occasions during December , he was denied access to the Netherlands or to the local press while in transit at Amsterdam airport . |
| 28 | A BTA ( Bulgarian news agency ) report cited in Le Monde of March 12 claimed that Patriarch Maxim had collaborated with the security services under the communist regime . |
| 29 | Jane had ‘ missed her first ’ and went down from university with only a two-one in English Language and Literature , thus deprived of the academic career she had coveted with cowardice . |
| 30 | We had to sit with our backs to the wall , facing the door . |