Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 2 | Speaking after the presentation , Mr Ashwell said the Wedgwood Fine Dining Awards were coveted by restaurants around the world and appreciated by those who had received them over the years . |
| 3 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 4 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 5 | The purpose of this and of other victim studies was to elicit from respondents whether they had been the victim of a crime , and if so , which types of crime and whether they had reported it to the police . |
| 6 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 7 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 8 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 9 | Mrs Robinson , who a few months before had been the mother of a happy and united family , found herself alone in the world ; an inscrutable fate had robbed her of the children who might have consoled her widowhood . |
| 10 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 11 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 12 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 13 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 14 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 15 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 16 | Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her . |
| 17 | The railways had done it to the canals and now it was to happen in turn to the railways . |
| 18 | The man was a demon and he had disturbed her to the depths of her being . |
| 19 | That eruption of passion had blinkered her to the risks she was taking , letting herself get involved with a man like this … |
| 20 | That quite compensated for the insult he had offered her on the stairs . |
| 21 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 22 | This song appealed especially , as we had filched it from the Germans . |
| 23 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 24 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 25 | The initiative was taken by Helen Crawfurd , a militant suffragette and socialist whose involvement in the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike had awakened her to the possibilities of resistance by working-class women . |
| 26 | Ever since he had known her parents , he had had them in the palms of both his hands . |
| 27 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 28 | The result was a peerage granted by William and Mary in 1689 , when he had helped them through the troubles surrounding the deposition of James II . |
| 29 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 30 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |