Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 2 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 3 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 4 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 5 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 6 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 7 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 8 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 9 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |
| 10 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |
| 11 | Once again I had the feeling that what my father had said to me in the garden could all be some horrible trick . |
| 12 | He was aware that it was trite , but the alternative was to express the scepticism that had grown inside him in the intervening days . |
| 13 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had thought about it in the dark hours of the night . |
| 17 | Erm erm I , I think that you know I , that had occurred to me in the past |
| 18 | ‘ Ross — I do wish that … ’ she began , hoping even at this last moment for some word , some sign that the scorching , torrid passion that had exploded between them in the Hamptons had meant as much to him as it had to her . |
| 19 | Three or four science articles I had copied for you in the library . ’ |
| 20 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Edward Pitt had called on them in the evening . |
| 25 | One of the university students said she had brushed past him in the corridor and gone out into the street . |
| 26 | There , next to Miss Temple , stood the same black column which had frowned on me in the breakfast-room at Gateshead . |
| 27 | The vague sense of depression that had settled over her in the library began to slip away . |
| 28 | She had forgotten that her papa was supposed to be dead , and had spoken of him in the present tense , a fact not wasted on Dr Neil , who made no comment , but asked politely , ‘ And does all this stockmarket bargaining mean that you are going to make me a cup of tea , or not ? |
| 29 | She could not believe she had rounded on him in the way she had . |
| 30 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |