Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 2 | In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction . |
| 3 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 4 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 5 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 6 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 7 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 8 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 9 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 10 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 11 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 12 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
| 13 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 14 | He had to try three of the numbers which the Substitute had given him on identical slips of paper , each of which had ‘ after eight-thirty ’ written in small , neat writing across the bottom . |
| 15 | Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons , winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips ? |
| 16 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 17 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 18 | But she had earned them on sheer merit . |
| 19 | The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently . |
| 20 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 21 | She wished suddenly that she had met him under different circumstances : not as Jenny 's boy friend ; not as her fellow beneficiary in Aunt Alicia 's will . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This happened first in Germany , when Georg Siemens , the founder and head of Germany 's premier bank , Deutsche Bank , saved the electrical apparatus company his cousin Werner had founded after Werner 's sons and heirs had mismanaged it into near collapse . |
| 24 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 25 | Over the past few years , since she had broken off her engagement to Jean-Paul , he had seen her on various occasions — at balls in London , or at country-house weekends once at Christian Glendinning 's parents ' house , but they had spoken only briefly . |
| 26 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 27 | He had done it with consummate aplomb . |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody was to know that Germans had made it onto British soil . |
| 29 | She confessed that Sally-Anne had written them on old ones Miss Laura had collected on earlier trips , and Miss Laura had posted them for her , to deceive us . |
| 30 | Eating the cake , he had felt it like tasteless dough in his mouth , every mouthful an act of shared indecency . |