Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [pron] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 2 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 3 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 4 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 5 | But I had bought mine at a time when I 'd luckily accumulated some nice big fees , and she is just what I need , in every way . |
| 6 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 7 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 8 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |
| 9 | A serving-maid to all intents and purposes , she had presented herself at the door which gave access to the rear stairs , the garden stairs , which led to the royal apartments . |
| 10 | To lose her now was going to be ten times worse than when she had left her at the Foundling Hospital , and she was making herself ill with worry . |
| 11 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 12 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 13 | Who had killed whom at the end of the day was hard to tell . |
| 14 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 15 | DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday . |
| 16 | He watched Ewen steadily , while the constable , who had seated himself at the kitchen table , was taking notes . |
| 17 | In the telegram which Randolph sent her from Cape Town telling her what had happened , he asked her on no account to tell his father , the prime minister , but to arrange payments on the instalment plan of perhaps £10 a month to a list of the names he enclosed who had fleeced him at the cards tables . |
| 18 | The other occupants of the boat were a Marine sergeant and one of the soldiers who had found her at the village . |
| 19 | The same afternoon , my departed heterosexual colleague , who had bought it , and who had shown it at the conference , was on the phone : would I change my mind ? |
| 20 | ‘ He would verbalize his sadnesses , throw his arms about as he told elaborate stories concerning people who had upset him at the time , even when going into sad tales about people who were important to him . |
| 21 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 22 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 23 | Rangers , though , deserved some fortune because they had enjoyed none at the other end . |
| 24 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 25 | It had soon passed , but it had alarmed her at the time . |
| 26 | It had upset him at the time , but you had to get over stuff like that or you 'd go to the wall . |
| 27 | He had met them at the Piazza Venezia two hours before . |
| 28 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 29 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 30 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |