Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 2 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 3 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 4 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 5 | It had reduced him to the same level , just another anonymous treatment that her body had required . |
| 6 | After an initial hesitation in December that lasted no more than forty-eight hours , the King 's sense of fair play had led him to the same conclusion . |
| 7 | Years of sunlight had tanned him to the same mahogany brown as the island fishermen . |
| 8 | But if it was breakfast , you had to cook it within the half hour and get out . |