Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 2 | But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room . |
| 3 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 4 | Mrs Bradford had given her the complete day off for her father 's funeral and she did n't have to be back at the house in Newcastle Place until six o'clock . |
| 5 | Fortunately her upbringing had given her the social training to cope with these situations . |
| 6 | Adam pointed to a framed cartoon , which he had given her the previous Christmas : a startled businessman gazed at a ghost ; rising from his desk drawer , it said , ‘ I am the spirit of old notes to yourself . ’ |
| 7 | The temptation to put aside the bitterness and suspicion was great , but , after all , she was here for only one purpose , and now Luke had given her the ideal opportunity to pursue it . |
| 8 | That wonderful love they had shared and which had given her the precious gift of a son . |
| 9 | With horror I suddenly recognized one of them — it was the man in our village pub who had given me the two pound notes ! and strangely enough , during the journey I heard the prisoners talking about it . |
| 10 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 11 | Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this . |
| 12 | as if he read Wickham 's mind , Shildon wrapped up the discussion , said he had given them the important stuff and the rest could wait . |
| 13 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 14 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 15 | A long , indented coastline , with many harbours on both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , gave her easy access to the oceans and had made her the economic centre of the world . |
| 16 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 17 | It was on this basis of this rationality , embodied in modern science and technology , that cette vielle Europe had triumphed throughout the world , had made itself the universal point of reference . |
| 18 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 19 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 20 | Most significant of all , the war had produced what the New Deal had failed to do over eight years — full employment . |
| 21 | He had bought himself the latest issue of Wildlife and was immersed in an article about otters . |
| 22 | He had offered her the front seat for the last leg , but she had turned it down . |
| 23 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 24 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 25 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 26 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 27 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 28 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 29 | He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense . |
| 30 | She thought of the helpful policeman who had told her the wrong day for the train . |