Example sentences of "had [vb pp] with [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time had come to splash out to the tune of forty quid a head for the eight members of his party who had travelled with him from the Forest of Arden to Sussex by the Sea . |
| 2 | Her father had sat with her through the nights , holding her hands , comforting her , robbing himself of sleep to be with her and help her through the worst of it . |
| 3 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 4 | I had an Abaya ( the long black gown ) which I had carried with me on the plane and a scarf to cover my hair , so I was able to enter the Ministry of Health without shocking the men too much . |
| 5 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 6 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 7 | Feeling defeated suddenly , she discovered that it was no good trying to recapture the fury she had felt with him in the hope of that fury helping her battle against the way she was feeling . |
| 8 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 9 | He was enthusiastic about the paper being located in Manchester , whereas Pilger had clashed with them over the move . |
| 10 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 11 | She was n't allowed to be friends with him , because long ago she had played with him in the fields while her mother gleaned what on Townsend 's Farm . |
| 12 | He had just been booted out of his digs , for the nth time , because the landlady had complained about the noise of a child who had stayed with him on the way home for half-term . |
| 13 | He describes how Anselm had returned with the pope from the Council of Bari , and had stayed with him until the end of April . |
| 14 | From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February . |
| 15 | A couple of Saturdays previously , she had walked with him along the Portobello Road . |
| 16 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 17 | He had not mentioned it in all this week that Hotspur had spent with him at the abbey , had asked no questions but the most current politenesses about his stay and his journey , and had shown no interest at all in the ceremony from which he had come . |
| 18 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 19 | When they had recovered they hurriedly cooked and ate the ration of cold rice they had brought with them from the barracks and swallowed a mouthful or two of water . |
| 20 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 21 | Cynthia Merstam watched in silence as the nurse arranged the big bunch of gladioli she had brought with her to the nursing-home . |
| 22 | She was busy at the tap over in the far corner of the cemetery , filling the empty bottle she had brought with her from the house . |
| 23 | But ‘ it was evidently all she owned ; it was the home she had brought with her from the Fatherland , and would be the home she would set up on the prairie ’ . |
| 24 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 25 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 26 | Immediately the anger and irritation he had brought with him from the house erupted in a howl of anger . |
| 27 | Drew had gone with her to the hospital , where she had undergone a full medical check . |
| 28 | My only reason for suspecting him was his quarrel with my sister , but she had quarrelled with everyone in the village ten thousand times . |
| 29 | Sutton had recruited Bill Packford , who had worked with him on the Evening News in the old days , to lay out pages for the 7 December dummy edition . |
| 30 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |