Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] with " in BNC.

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1 But the guy who joined Cyril at that time , Cliff Barton , was a buddy of mine who lived opposite me , and who had turned down the gig with Mayall .
2 Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie .
3 Barrie Nye from Woughton on the Green in Milton Keynes had flagged down a lorry with smoking tyres on the M-One near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire .
4 Yet he it was who had set up a meeting with ‘ Miguelito ’ quite deliberately , knowing that he was going to dupe her into going .
5 When all details of the front page set-up were agreed , and Bill Adair had tightened up the form with his screw-lock , the plate was wheeled on its steel trolley to the back where the asbestos mat was impressed .
6 Although unconfirmed at the time , rumours that DEC had struck up a deal with Auspex Systems Inc , the Santa Clara , California network server company that already counts IBM among its customers , have turned out to be correct ( UX No 384 ) .
7 At Indica he had met Miles and had struck up a friendship with the ever-cordial Jim Haynes , and the early contributors pushed the new magazine beyond an Australian mafia , he emphasizes .
8 Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles , a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences .
9 He replied , apparently to the students ' dissatisfaction , that he had himself encountered nothing of the kind and indeed that many of those who had started off the war with him and seen it through to the end had become major military commanders .
10 He had taken up the post with the NITB after spending eight years in Glasgow .
11 And a shock came when , on 12 March , the large picture was sent on its way to Bohemia ; the transport firm in Decin had loaded up the lorry with gas containers from Belgium .
12 He had paid off the mortgage with ease when at the height of his success .
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