Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For half an hour they had lain in each other 's arms in the creaking guest-house bed , too scared with happiness to move . |
| 2 | After half a mile she had rejected this hypothesis and decided that it was merely because she was unattractive , the sort of person who , fifty years ago , would have worn rubber galoshes . |
| 3 | After half an hour she had to admit defeat . |
| 4 | She had known as soon as they had arrived at the lodge that her heart had made the right decision , even though it felt irresponsible and utterly childish to be spending a summer like this , at her age , and after all the work she had done to put the initials MD after her name . |
| 5 | I 'm sure the Hague Linker needed a new needle after all the work it had done . |
| 6 | ‘ For such a friend I had , though after all |
| 7 | The association provided flats for young couples who after two years were given a return of half the rent they had paid to be used as a deposit on the purchase of a house . |
| 8 | Thus , despite all the effort he had devoted to the cause of German unification , he opposed it when it came through the force of Prussian arms and Bismarckian diplomacy . |
| 9 | The lack of eyes robbed the face of all the character it had had , of personality , of the vestige of life . |
| 10 | ‘ No , ’ I said , and hated myself for telling the untruth , but I was thinking of my own boat standing propped on the sand of Straker 's Cay , and I thought of all the work I had lavished on Masquerade , and of all the love and care and time I had poured into her , and I tried to imagine her rotting under the tropical sun with her paint peeling , her deck planks opening and her timbers riddled with termites . |
| 11 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 12 | And , gentle though it was , the touch of his lips held the seed in it of all the passion they had shared — and would share , she knew now , in the future . |
| 13 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 14 | Personally I liked it , but felt it was not worth all the publicity I had helped create for it . |
| 15 | Ranulf felt his stomach lurch as all the wine he had drunk threatened to spew out . |
| 16 | And all that was left was a silent man who was imprisoned still by a numbness born of horror and years of fear , tormented by the simple question to which there seemed to be no answer : why , through all the hell he had seen , had he survived ? |
| 17 | During all the time I had played golf I had not gone into any competitions and I had not got my handicap . |
| 18 | This was nothing but an elaborate hoax perpetrated by her in revenge for all the suffering I had caused her . |
| 19 | Originally the compact had stipulated that the Belau government would provide land for sites selected by the military and would compensate landowners , while the USA would provide $5,500,000 for all the land it had an option on . |
| 20 | In his report , the Chairman Reg Simmons thanked the retiring committee for all the work they had done . |
| 21 | He had not returned any fulsome gratitude to his staff for all the work they had put in during the day ; but he always found it difficult to express his deeper feelings . |
| 22 | But he soon realized that he was leaving himself too little time for all the work he had to complete , and a regular routine of three days in London ( generally from Tuesday to Thursday ) and four days at Shamley Green was established instead . |
| 23 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 24 | For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask . |
| 25 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 26 | It made up for all the poverty and hardship they had suffered , and planted a new , fierce determination in her to make her way in the world , to marry well and make up for all the injustice they had suffered because of her Uncle Harry . |
| 27 | He submitted a bill for all the money he had spent on my upbringing . |
| 28 | A thousand miles from Bristol for all the chance she had of getting away . |
| 29 | She arrived back down in Gavarnie , ‘ still merry and confident ’ according to the Anna lists , as well she might be for all the effort she had had to make . |
| 30 | Rage at her daughter , not just for what she had done but for all the unhappiness she had caused her grandmother . |