Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taught her much over the years . |
| 2 | His intellectual and emotional itinerary between 1924 and 1927 is the record of a deepening crisis brought on by a growing realisation of the political and social dimension of his current lifestyle , an awareness that his pursuit of academic excellence and success had implicated him personally in a way of life that contradicted , subverted and emasculated the values and beliefs of his own social origins . |
| 3 | Previously they had lacked an identity , but the training period had welded them together into a cohesive fighting force with an intense pride in themselves and their unit . |
| 4 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 5 | Yet the first step had been taken , and an inexpressible sadness closed in upon him , as if he had stripped himself wantonly of the children who were his own flesh . |
| 6 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 7 | Years ago Constance 's mother had kept chickens at the bottom of the garden , and when they went off the lay one of her sons-in-law had strangled them and she had given them away to the neighbours , being unable to eat a bird she had known personally . |
| 8 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |
| 9 | She had given herself totally to the frighteningly wonderful feelings he aroused in her . |
| 10 | Roman 's early experience had altered him irrevocably from a loving young man to a hard cynic who would never let any other woman near enough to win his love and trust . |
| 11 | They had found Montparnasse and had installed themselves unwittingly in the brothel , the Hôtel Select , making friends also with the girls who haunted the nearby Café Ambiance . |
| 12 | Jacques Devraux had not troubled to make him known to the senator , but while his father made a final check of the baggage truck , Paul Devraux had patted him affectionately on the shoulder and introduced him to them as " the great all-purpose Annamese genie Ngo Van Loc , who 's houseboy , camp boy , chauffeur and indispensable general assistant to the humble Devraux family . " |
| 13 | Last night 's bombing had caught her unawares in the West End . |
| 14 | The other woman had caught her completely on the raw with her mention of the man she had seen Adam with , though to be honest she could n't really have said why . |
| 15 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 16 | The strip had carried him right to the end of the branch . |
| 17 | In her silent way , she had committed herself entirely to a life for art 's sake . |
| 18 | In July 1890 , two years after writing this , Van Gogh had shot himself inefficiently in the groin , and had died slowly . |
| 19 | And another time ooh another time she went er somebody I tell you they always used to run for my mother when there was trouble and er a woman had hung herself just round the corner to where we lived . |
| 20 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 21 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 22 | Before this YWAM had seen themselves solely as a youth evangelistic organisation that was an outreach arm of existing churches . |
| 23 | Maggie was even more startled to find him alone when she came in and instantly relieved that she had n't allowed the boy who had seen her home from the village further than the road gate . |
| 24 | He had seen her perfectly in the light from the passage . |
| 25 | Once , that is , he had seen it again after a four-year absence . |
| 26 | Not that she had seen it so at the time . |
| 27 | He had seen it too in the mass he had witnessed in the church of Gesù Nuovo . |
| 28 | Who had done it already despite the English , French Canadians and how they felt about each other . |
| 29 | The Prince had positioned himself just behind the six guns of the Dutch battery . |
| 30 | In that case the defendant had made her home with a tenant of a private sector house for three years and continued to make her home with the tenant when he was granted a secure tenancy of a council house . |