Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] with [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corpse , now stiff , had turned blue with the cold . |
| 2 | The hotel and its newly dug garden are protected from the winds and passing cows by a handsome new stone wall made in the old way — using the enormous smooth round boulders that litter the fields as if a giant 's child had grown bored with a game of marbles . |
| 3 | He thought of something he had read once about Fielding , who had heard the watermen at Rotherhithe mocking his body when it had grown ugly with the dropsy . |
| 4 | It was as if , said Callaghan , they had got bored with the subject , and suddenly ‘ chucked a bucket of whitewash over it . ’ |
| 5 | It did not so much reach a conclusion as slow down and dribble into silence , as though the players had got bored with the melody and let it slip through their fingers carelessly . |
| 6 | George enjoyed military detail and Maxim had got lucky with the library . |
| 7 | Now he had drawn level with the fire , and as the villagers caught the air of his song he was quickly rewarded with the sound of their voices — men , women and children — lifted in unison . |
| 8 | Youthful students were one thing , but if her impressionable sister had become involved with a man of this calibre … |
| 9 | One evening after dinner Wendell Harvey had demanded that Aubrey tell them about his childhood at The Grange , and how Harry had become involved with the family . |
| 10 | WEU also took over the social and cultural responsibilities outlined in the Brussels Treaty , but since most of the original military functions had become redundant with the creation of NATO , it was decided that WEU could perform best by being directly incorporated within the broader defence alliance . |
| 11 | were traditional watermills and windmills which had become redundant with the introduction of steam , and later electrical power . |
| 12 | He had become dissatisfied with the council 's record on housing and its bias in favour of the farmers who composed its membership . |
| 13 | In such a short time , she had become obsessed with the idea of Resenence Jeopardy . |
| 14 | During its course two major contestants had been eliminated , one by assassination and one by detention , and party politics in Kenya had become obsessed with the struggle between personalities and the rival power of different Kikuyu clans . |
| 15 | Also he had become friendly with a Cockney man , older than he , who had been a french polisher and who now sold reproduction furniture to antique shops from a van . |
| 16 | Brzezinski considered the President 's words to represent ‘ a formal recognition of a centrally important reality : that America 's security had become interdependent with the security of three central and interrelated strategic zones consisting of Western Europe , the Far East and the Middle East Persian Gulf area ’ . |
| 17 | Between 1974 and 1979 I had become concerned with the number of investigations conducted in a few States where , despite representations from properly appointed accredited representatives , the findings in the final reports were clearly less than satisfactory . |
| 18 | Government unpopularity resulting from the state of the economy in general and high interest and mortgage rates in particular had provided Labour with an opinion poll lead of about 10% for some months . |
| 19 | And he said something about he 'd once they 'd once had to work all one day and all one night a near the Regent Centre because er , something had gone wrong with the gas pipes because erm of flooding . |
| 20 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 21 | A man who may be described as a little eccentric , he suffers from angina , and only a few weeks previously had taken ill with an attack while on holiday in Majorca . |
| 22 | ‘ We had to become familiar with a pile of paperwork about the Single Market , ’ said Exports shipping director . |