Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] with a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles , eating his toast , opening his mail , had suddenly exclaimed with a parody of fury , ‘ Christ , it 's the Venables again ! ’ |
| 2 | And with that thought , she wrung out her dress , and flopped it into the basket that Sabina had already filled with a heap of the family 's washing . |
| 3 | But when the bridal pair returned home to Grantham , Lincs , from their Kenya honeymoon , they discovered that Angela 's parents had not parted with a penny . |
| 4 | So long as people continued to live in their old houses , surrounded by their old friends and neighbours , and had not broken with a routine of life which perhaps dated back generations , then the re-moulding of mentalities was going to be a frustratingly slow process , particularly for an engineer of human souls who was no longer young . |
| 5 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 6 | For the tourney I returned to the serving table to serve the knights who had just fought with a drink , and serve the ladies with bread , cheese and fruit . |
| 7 | Their refusal to do so had more to do with a laager mentality than with calculations that by spinning out the conflict they could buy time to mop up more territory . |
| 8 | The new generation of producers that subsequently emerged came to believe it was possible for the British film industry to ‘ take on ’ the Americans , although this grand ambition had more to do with a desire to efface their inferiority complex than any serious resolve to face reality . |
| 9 | The family is well aware of the poor level of prize-money in Britain , but their decision not to bid had more to do with a clash of personality with Tattersalls than any pull-out threat . |
| 10 | Well , he had n't gone with a stranger . |
| 11 | Spellbound , she could have stood there gazing indefinitely if her ankle , which unconsciously she 'd put weight on , had n't protested with a stab of pain . |
| 12 | The Soviet side had initially responded with a counterproposal involving ceilings for both sides of either 225,000 or 195,000 troops for Europe as a whole ( thereby calling on the United States either to accept an imbalance of 30,000 troops in Central Europe or to withdraw some or all its forces from the other countries ) , but accepted the original proposal after the US side had rejected this alternative formula . |
| 13 | But Guy would have staked his own soul on the fact that Isabel had never lain with a man . |