Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 32 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 33 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | and Schiemann J. , and in the latter by Hoffmann J. The W. H. Smith case took the form of an appeal to the Divisional Court from the Crown Court , by way of case stated , against the conviction of the two defendant stores for Sunday trading ; the Torfaen decision was published after the hearing before the Crown Court and before the hearing before the Divisional Court and , it being plain that the Crown Court had misdirected itself on the effect of article 30 , the Divisional Court quashed the convictions . |
| 38 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 39 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 40 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 41 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 42 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 43 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 44 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 45 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 46 | 780 Ealdhun also gave lands which Ecgberht had given him to the familia of Christ Church ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) . |
| 47 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 48 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 49 | She gave a little shiver as a goose ran over her grave , and stroked Cas and Poll , who had joined her on the swing-seat . |
| 50 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 51 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 52 | A few of his followers had joined him on the dais . |
| 53 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
| 54 | Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig . |
| 55 | It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all . |
| 56 | The wedding , planned for November … ’ ) she had learned that she was the goddaughter of Lady Bartlett ( that mother of sons … ) and had joined them at the end of July . |
| 57 | 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 . ’ |
| 58 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 59 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 60 | 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 . |