Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 2 | I had to give them the keys . |
| 3 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 4 | I had to ask him the way to the police station . |
| 5 | I had to tell him the news myself |
| 6 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
| 7 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 8 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 9 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 10 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 11 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 12 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 13 | Mrs Grandison , the mother of Sophia and Penelope , had the remains of her daughters ' Pre-Raphaelite beauty , now much faded and overlaid with some other quality , which had made her the President of the Women 's Institute in the village where she lived but which did not seem to be quite Pre-Raphaelite . |
| 14 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 15 | Party members and SA men , who in 1933 had seen themselves as posing a radical , populist alternative to the conservative Reichswehr , now took a back seat and simply provided the setting for the triumphant reception of young officers of the Wehrmacht , heroes home on leave from the Front recounting tales of stirring deeds which had earned them the Ritterkreuz . |
| 16 | Jean 's precocious bubble of confidence , which had earned her the attention of her parents , was replaced by a sense of guilt about what had happened which lasted into later life . |
| 17 | It was dedication of that order which had won her the reputation of one of the finest young actresses around . |
| 18 | But yesterday Mr and Mrs Lewis said they were disgusted at the situation , which had left them the victims . |
| 19 | If she had planned it the blow could not have been more accurate . |
| 20 | She left Philip to his labours , thinking that this time she had given him the money for the materials but none for his labour . |
| 21 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 22 | His hand toyed mercilessly with her breasts , as if he had the right ; perhaps she had given him the right ; as if he owned her and she existed solely for his capricious use . |
| 23 | She glared at me , dug beneath her cloak and pushed a purse ( much leaner than the one she had given me the night before ) into my hand . |
| 24 | ‘ If she had seen you the night of the Giants she might have thought differently , ’ Ratagan said gently . |
| 25 | She wondered about the bruise on his cheek : she had noticed it the evening before when he came back from his Tuesday round . |
| 26 | Then her father returned , and she had to tell him the story all over again . |
| 27 | She had told me the tunnels had now been connected up and the workmen used the subway constantly as a private short cut . |
| 28 | She had told him the truth , she discovered , staring at the polished beauty of his shoulder . |
| 29 | The Concorde ticket to New York was where she had left it the night before . |
| 30 | She had shown him the book where it was illustrated . |