Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tolkien had taught him that the inability to believe in Christianity was primarily a failure of the imagination . |
| 2 | Salome Search 's three years at R.A.D.A. had taught her that the pause before a sensational line can be extended almost infinitely . |
| 3 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |
| 4 | All the inside surfaces were wood , the fire smoke had blackened them and the heat produced a rich resinous smell of burning pine . |
| 5 | Mellor claimed that he had been driven out of office by the tabloid press , which had pursued him since the discovery in July of his extramarital affair with an actress , Antonia de Sancha . |
| 6 | It was not only the size of the church that had impressed him but the decoration , the overwhelming , almost suffocating richness of the baroque interior . |
| 7 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 8 | The gallant compliments of the captain and his officers particularly had reminded her that the beauty so widely admired in her youth had not yet faded . |
| 9 | Eventually even Gorbad had to give up , Altdorf had defeated him and the Waaagh was over . |
| 10 | Why did n't he just go while she could still maintain some degree of composure , this deliberate distancing of herself from the rapture that had possessed her before the telephone rang ? |
| 11 | Marie had thought about telling him the truth : that Bella had seen him and the police would soon be after him . |
| 12 | He told me that his wife had left him and she had told him that the baby she was carrying was not his . ’ |
| 13 | That was an unwise decision ; for already the leaders of the Opposition parties had told him that the Cabinet 's latest financial proposals were ‘ wholly unsatisfactory ’ , and had suggested that he should consult the King . |
| 14 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 15 | He said council officers had told them that the repair bill per flat would cost in the region of £5,000 , whereas it would cost about £40,000 to build new homes . |
| 16 | They answered just as Jesus had told them and the men let them go . |
| 17 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 18 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 19 | The lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , who was here alone . |
| 20 | The King 's officials had told me that the Princess was very popular , and the people hoped that she would become my wife . |
| 21 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 22 | And Archie McLaren had told me that the house would probably have to be sold , so it was to be supposed that at any time now people might be coming to look at it . |
| 23 | Maureen had told her that the O'Neills ' neighbour had been in the wool shop and had told her that she was sure they were all mad . |
| 24 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 25 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 26 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 27 | Inspector Blakelock , she remembered , had told her that the Laboratory refrigerator had once held a whole head . |
| 28 | It was n't just Sunil who had convinced me that the rest of the week would be better spent out of town . |
| 29 | In an address to the Senate on April 19 Dole said that his visit to the Middle East had convinced him that the March 22 resolution was a mistake and that the issue of Jerusalem had to be decided by negotiation between Arabs and Israelis . |
| 30 | CD 's fourth novel , and the first of the two serialized in his weekly periodical , Master Humphrey 's Clock , 1840–1 , after an early drop in sales had convinced him that the magazine could not succeed as a miscellany . |