Example sentences of "had [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On some deep , primitive level , sensed earlier when she had gazed at him across the fire , she belonged to him . |
| 2 | But Ma Katz had got out of her rocking chair , and the preacherman had stared at her through the mummy 's glass eyes . |
| 3 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 4 | At one of them sat the men who , she was sure , had jeered at her from the wall beside the petrol pumps and were now slapping down playing cards and shouting Ventidue ! with much of their remaining strength . |
| 5 | They had laughed at him in the road gang ; who did he think he was ? they said . |
| 6 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 7 | Grey-haired and with a grey moustache beneath his aquiline nose , the man who had peered at her from the utility truck when she had stopped on the highway was not difficult to recognise . |