Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 2 | It was only when the colours gave way to plain gold before subsiding into diminishing fountains of silver that she realised she had moved closer to Rune , seeking instinctive protection against the sharp noise of the exploding rockets and that he had gathered her to his strong male body , pinning her to his side by the power of his arm , his hand firmly pressed against her waist . |
| 3 | Her father had bedecked her in her deceased mother 's jewels . |
| 4 | It had been a glimpse of Gentle , not so unlike the one she 'd just had , that had propelled her into her near-suicidal affair with him . |
| 5 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 6 | But a stray recollection of a golliwog Maurice had given her for her fifth birthday undid the effect in an instant and she reached Swans ' Meadow with her eyes red and face blotchy from tears , only to find to her surprise that Ursula was in a similar condition . |
| 7 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 8 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 9 | " Oh Christ she said , limp suddenly , as if that one contact had drained her of her vital energy , preparing her , weakening her , for what was to come . |
| 10 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 11 | Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement . |
| 12 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 13 | It had surrounded her at her progressive private school , it surrounded her still at her fashionable newish university , but she herself lacked economic grasp and was uncomfortably aware of having lost , of late , a few arguments with outsiders , of having been thrown back on arguments about personalities . |
| 14 | Yet the Han had destroyed all that they had once been — had severed them from their cultural roots as simply and as thoroughly as a gardener might snip the stem of a chrysanthemum . |
| 15 | He had rescued her in his own way , he had swept away the bitterness and the hurt , but he had added a hurt of his own too . |
| 16 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 17 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 18 | She had written to him while he was in prison but had received no reply , but then she had excused him in her own mind , telling herself he would be free soon , then he would come home to her and make her his bride . |
| 19 | The twenty-first century 4-D representations had prepared me for something horrific ; yet my impression was of features more frightening than strictly horrifying . |
| 20 | The Warden had robbed her of her rightful position of importance in the drama , but at least she could make herself feel better by taking this girl down a peg or two . |
| 21 | She remembered that Aycliffe had brought up the matter of clothes , that Benedict himself had scolded her for her nip-cheese ways . |
| 22 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 23 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 24 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 25 | He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised . |
| 26 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 27 | The murderer had done it with his bare hands . |
| 28 | She had startled him with her headlong flight . |
| 29 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 30 | Attendance at the ball indicated considerable standing in the adult world and he had a sudden savage desire to show his parents , who would be there , that he had made it on his own , without any help from them . |