Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father had bedecked her in her deceased mother 's jewels . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At last , as though he had answered it in his own mind , he said ‘ What is the unicorn ? ’ |
| 7 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 8 | For what had visited me in my weakest hour and provided me with food if not that damned creation of Frankenstein 's ? |
| 9 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
| 10 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 11 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 12 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 13 | More than that , she had an instinct for tactical manoeuvring which had helped her in her chosen profession , and which had served her well up till now . |
| 14 | His eye had regained its clarity , and his head its proud poise , as in the days when Norbury had accompanied him in his Prussian crusade with the Teutonic knights , long ago . |
| 15 | It had brought them in their hundreds , in their thousands , in their tens of thousands along this track . |
| 16 | ‘ Point Counter Point — Contrepoint as we had to call it in our rigid language — for the third time I might add . ’ |
| 17 | When he had seated her in his rocking chair and put a glass of dark liquid in her hand , he moved her lamp and his single candle so that her face was illumined . |
| 18 | Harriet had put them in her smaller guest-room which had a double bed . |
| 19 | The one sentence that had pleased me in her unfastidious and not very delicate letter was the last of all — that simple ‘ Write care of Ann . ’ |
| 20 | She had reached the landing by this stage of her deliberations , remarking , as she did so , that the fitted carpet , which had covered them in her own time , had gone . |
| 21 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 22 | She had expected pain , almost welcomed it as the payment for ridding herself of her despised virginity which had labelled her in her own mind as undesired — unloved . |
| 23 | ‘ Tarts ’ was how she had described them in her own mind . |