Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 While you were missing , I had to deal with a dog that had been run over . ’
2 Finally , one of the students whom I had worked with a couple of summers previously came back to me just before I left post to discuss his third year project at Shrivenham and I was able to arrange for him to do a project involving the linking of a commercial graphical package to the expert system developed as part of the war time operation aid mentioned previously .
3 I had consumed several whiskies — the kind the inexpert Yorkshiremen pour as though it was ginger ale — and I had finished with a glass of old Mrs Earnshaw 's rhubarb wine which had seared its way straight to my toenails .
4 A family line which had begun with a marriage of 1625 , seen good times and bad times , sent its bright young sons to London and married its daughters into many a Frome family was seeing here , in Sarah , its last torch-bearer .
5 But she had lived with a dragon for over ten years , and she had lived in a house filled with strong women , so she knew that there was something very wrong with that scenario .
6 An hour later , the woman who was seen with the child was arrested at Heathrow where she had argued with a cabbie after refusing to pay her fare .
7 Bless the lady : she gave me a large breakfast and then told me she had arranged with a friend who had a car to take me into Lochinver .
8 It was suggested that she hated the wet and dreary Balmoral holidays , that she suffered from anorexia , that she had quarrelled with a number of the Prince 's household and staff , that she was only interested in clothes , that she was a lover of discotheques and neglected her husband .
9 But the same year , 465 , saw the biter bit : instead of forcing Athens to abandon an overseas operation to deal with a problem nearer home , that is , a Spartan army menacing the Attic border , Sparta was herself forced to welch on the Thasos offer , because she had to deal with a revolt of the helots at Ithome in Messenia .
10 Anyone could pat things down , she had said with a toss of all that blonde curly hair .
11 ‘ So long as your prick is n't made of wood as well as ! ’ she had said with a laugh to make him feel easy .
12 Both gentlemen once more glanced round to where the old lady was still staring , but now speaking to Lady Danby , whom she had detained with a hand on her arm .
13 Several years before we saw her , she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders .
14 She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ?
15 She had danced with a man who had danced with a girl , who had danced with the Prince of Wales .
16 She had dealt with a case of peritonitis in 1995 , and apparently it did n't work out too well .
17 At first she had thought with a shock of fear that it was old age , that old age was like silicon , water-soluble , it flowed into you and as you dried out , it hardened , recasting you in blurred shapes and muted tones .
18 She had danced with a man who had danced with a girl , who had danced with the Prince of Wales .
19 Another burst of applause announced the arrival of the Prince of Orange , who had come with a handful of staff officers .
20 Tanya Irwin , who had arrived with a gaggle of student chums with the intention of having a laugh , did just that , skipping into Round Two with her rendition of ‘ That 's What Friends Are For ’ .
21 17 ) Party Sevens ( these were massive cans of bitter — it Whitbread Big Head Trophy Bitter , The Pint That Thinks It 's A Quawawwart ! — that you had to open with a hammer )
22 There was no sign of Haines , no one had come with a list of grievances , and Harold was able to give some of the assurances that I had urged upon him before the first dinner .
23 Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks .
24 When , in 1150 , the citizens of La Rochelle had asked the Bishop of Saintes for permission to build a new parish church to accommodate the growing number of worshippers , they had met with a refusal .
25 In particular they had to deal with a fire-bomb that might get lodged on the roof .
26 In the previous week they had dealt with a fire in another factory on the industrial estate in nearby Mill Lane .
27 The day ended as it had begun with a win for Carl Fogarty , with Robert Dunlop getting his hat-trick , and Jim Moodie , making it only three winners for the seven races .
28 Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher .
29 For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly .
30 In the early hours a Supreme Soviet deputy , Viktor Aivanzian , was shot dead at the headquarters of the Armenian National Army ( ANA — the largest militia group , claiming 160,000 members ) , where he had gone with a contingent from the Armenian Pan-National Movement ( to which the ANA was refusing to subordinate itself ) to discuss a shooting incident of the night before .
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