Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
2 | A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower . |
3 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
4 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
5 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
6 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
7 | It had reduced him to the same level , just another anonymous treatment that her body had required . |
8 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
9 | Years of sunlight had tanned him to the same mahogany brown as the island fishermen . |
10 | Tonight he had left her with a few unanswered questions , and speculations buzzing around her brain . |
11 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |