Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 2 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 3 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 4 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 5 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 6 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 7 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 8 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 9 | Rosemary had once told her the amount she was paying in rent . |