Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Anyone could pat things down , she had said with a toss of all that blonde curly hair . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Several years before we saw her , she had gone with a friend to visit the war graves in Flanders . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | She had danced with a man who had danced with a girl , who had danced with the Prince of Wales . |
| 15 | She had dealt with a case of peritonitis in 1995 , and apparently it did n't work out too well . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) |
| 18 | Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In particular they had to deal with a fire-bomb that might get lodged on the roof . |
| 21 | In the previous week they had dealt with a fire in another factory on the industrial estate in nearby Mill Lane . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For no apparent reason he had collided with a car coming in the opposite direction , killing the other driver instantly . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the facts , the defendant was found not liable , as he had conformed with a practice which was approved by a responsible body of medical opinion . |
| 27 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 28 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 29 | Greg thought back on the Hilda he had known with a surge of affection : he could almost see her , chuckling over the typewriter as she composed the letter . |
| 30 | His name was Sir Humphrey Agnew , and he had consorted with a witch hereabouts . |