Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had given their only child the benefit of the doubt , but Paige had known , and Lori had hated her for knowing — and for not telling tales . |
| 2 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 3 | All of them had served in Lebanon and Chad , and each of them had a minimum of three years ' service , which meant that when they had done their basic training the violence they were employing with us had been the norm . |
| 4 | I myself had celebrated my tenth birthday the day before and was still getting cards and presents that arrived late . |
| 5 | In her imagination Louisa saw the man confronted by the chill implacable will which had seized her own hand the previous night and imprisoned her in confidence … that sacred confidence . |
| 6 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 7 | When she moved in Virginia Woolf was thirty-seven and had published her first novel The Voyage Out and had her second , Night and Day , accepted ; all her other books were to be in part written at Monk 's House . |