Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 2 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 3 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 4 | Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow . |
| 5 | Then the goat had made itself evident in the warm air . |
| 6 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 7 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 8 | Money had proved itself flimsy in the face of those imponderables . |
| 9 | When patients who did not contact their general practitioners before their attempts were questioned about why they had not gone to their doctor , it was found that many were reluctant to trouble him , some had found him unhelpful in the fist , and others thought he was unlikely to be helpful or might even be unsympathetic ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) . |
| 10 | The slab side of the executive transporter loomed like a cliff out of the white fog , getting larger by the second as the shock wave from the explosions which had set it adrift in the first place propelled it nearer and nearer the executive transporter bay wall . |
| 11 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 12 | But Mary had been touched by it as a girl and , as her goat herds had taken her high in the woods , she had often come across Kitty in the course of things . |
| 13 | Grunte had taken him earlier in the year to a lunch at the Connaught Rooms where he ( Malcolm ) had been introduced to Lady Porter . |
| 14 | Suppose one of them had put something nasty in the food by error — or by purpose . |
| 15 | There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind . |
| 16 | Ben thought that this was considerable cheek , on two counts : one , he had beaten him earlier in the year in Moscow , and two , Ben had been the faster all year . |
| 17 | The Treeman had kept them safe in the deepest wildwoods while war raged . |