Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 2 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 3 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 4 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 5 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 6 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 7 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 8 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 9 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 10 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 11 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 12 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 13 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 14 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 15 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 16 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 17 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 18 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 19 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 20 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 21 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 22 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 23 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 24 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 25 | He had rung her in the afternoon and suggested they met . |
| 26 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 27 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 28 | President Carter had applied it in the form of an embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union after the Christmas 1979 invasion of Afghanistan ; and it was to prove as ineffective as the Arab oil embargo . |
| 29 | They ate in silence , Corbett conscious of the old man staring at them now joined by the leader who had met them in the forest . |
| 30 | She had met him in the Coupole the night before when she was sitting with her friends from the atelier , and he 'd known one of them and come over . |