Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet considerate as ever , Louisa had shielded him from the worst of the intrusion . |
| 2 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 3 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 4 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 5 | J.B. Priestley once said that it could never quite make up its mind whether it was a port or a resort , but that very ambivalence had saved it from the worst pitfalls of both . |
| 6 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |