Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [pron] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They turned a corner and Corbett had to hide his trembling at the appearance of the small , squat , one-eyed man who seemed to rise out of the darkness before them . |
| 2 | She knew that dead people could be kept in this state because the man who lived next door to Mrs MacDonagh worked in an undertakers , and Ellie had heard him talking about it to Mrs MacDonagh . |
| 3 | Ruth had heard her boasting to the Carsons . |
| 4 | Grant had watched them standing in front of the electronic display , puzzling at the excessive time they seemed to be wasting . |
| 5 | Miss Logan halted , initially in surprise , for it appeared that Miss Fergusson had lost her footing on a little stretch of solid rock which should have afforded no peril . |
| 6 | Maureen had met her returning from the photographers ' room , discovered the keys and taken them . |
| 7 | Anne had seen her going into my room , and she had n't been able to bear it . |
| 8 | His mother Christine had left him playing with toys at the surgery while she had an injection . |
| 9 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |
| 10 | The ancient servitor , who drove with a slack rein and a sublime disregard of the pot-holes , seemed to take it as a personal affront that Miss Kyte had kept him waiting for more than two hours . |
| 11 | Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative . |
| 12 | And then , when that clearly had n't worked , Laura had found herself lapsing into a sullen , resentful attitude , defiantly refusing to have anything to do with the beastly old woman . |
| 13 | On the contrary , time and again Ashley had found herself thinking about Vitor 's looks , that purring accent , those first moments when they had first met . |
| 14 | Mr Popple had found her lying on the bathroom floor upon returning from the Lamb and Flag . |