Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] the [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'm sure the Hague Linker needed a new needle after all the work it had done . |
| 3 | Then chided himself for getting so excited about one woman , after all the women he had known . |
| 4 | The habit of giving in to him was still hard to break , though , even after all the years they had been apart . |
| 5 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Despite all the sparks they had struck off one another she had felt they were forging a deep friendship based on mutual respect and acknowledgement of each other 's special qualities . |
| 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 | Of all the nurses she had known only Minnie Robinson had remained loved and revered and even now , when she was old and pensioned off , Miss Arabel visited her faithfully and turned to her in complete trust for advice and comfort . |
| 11 | The songs came back to her now , and she thought of all the things she had n't had : a junior prom , dates , valentines , flowers . |
| 12 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |
| 13 | Of all the things she had expected from life , the events of the last twenty-four hours had not been remotely near them . |
| 14 | When William had gone , she thought of all the things she had planned to do as soon as she had a little time to herself . |
| 15 | The memory of all the things she had said to him came back to her and she was suddenly scared . |
| 16 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 17 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | He was the ideal of all the friends I had ever longed for , the elder brother that , as an only child , I could never hope for — though he was at least fifteen years younger than I , his assurance and absolute maleness made me feel like a younger brother by contrast . |
| 20 | His letter contained an account of all the birds he had seen : a common goatsucker that flew gracefully round and round the ship for an hour , although it had ‘ in all probability passed the night on the wing ’ ; a female yellow wagtail that alighted only for a moment ; numerous petrels , five of which he killed for himself , and one for use in Mr Yarrell 's work ( a History of British Birds ) ; a flight of swallows , and several small turtle doves , which ‘ visited the ship [ and ] went off again immediately ’ ; a kestrel which was killed ‘ from off the Rigging ’ ; a short-eared owl which flew on board during the night , was caught and kept alive for several days ; and hundreds of shearwaters , which surrounded the ship off Madeira and the Salvage Rocks . |
| 21 | In spite of all the times he had been there Adam missed the turn-off that was the drift leading down to Wyvis Hall . |
| 22 | In the new will he inserted a trust clause , entrusting payment of all the legacies he had left in the now invalid first will . |
| 23 | I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life . |
| 24 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 25 | The plastic potted plants , a wild profusion , looked real , for , a few drinks in you , it might be a bar in Seville , which was , of all the places she had been , her most romantic city . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But Miguel Rafaelo sat at the desk , looking through the files that Shelley had made of all the patients she had seen . |
| 29 | His head whirled with the names and faces of all the people he had met that day . |
| 30 | Of all the people he had expected from Washington ‘ Dexter ’ was the last person . |