Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 2 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 3 | And as he held his finger to his lips , she remembered that he had told her in strict confidence that the complex belonged to him . |
| 4 | At first , Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule . |
| 5 | Until then , Japanese drug firms ' poor R&D and their emphasis on selling imported drugs had left them in poor shape to compete internationally . |
| 6 | It had left me in White Face 's power . |
| 7 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 8 | Her evidence was that being interviewed by two senior police officers had put her in considerable fear and trepidation and that her confession was accordingly not a true one . |
| 9 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 10 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 11 | His loyalty had stood him in good stead after the restoration , and he was now a commissioner of police for religious conformity — a post which did not prevent him from working in any other area which Horemheb , through the king , saw fit to appoint him to . |
| 12 | The formal methods of teaching , the accent on the ‘ three Rs ’ , had stood me in good stead and in those aspects of school work I was ahead . |
| 13 | Lizzy 's butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth image had kept her in good stead the last few years , but soon she wanted to break away . |
| 14 | The girls ' parents had held her in high regard and they had become firm friends . |
| 15 | Browning traced the works to the collection owned jointly by Leon Levy , a New York financier , and Shelby White , who had purchased the pieces from the Ariadne Galleries in New York who , in their turn , had acquired them in good faith . |