Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 2 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 3 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 4 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
| 5 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 6 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 7 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 8 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 9 | She had never held a baby before that was not a fat , well-dressed , sweet-smelling thing , but not one of them had ever given her the strange sense of fulfilment which the pitiful scrap of humanity in her arms , wrapped in the square which she had earlier scissored from her petticoat , did . |
| 10 | Someone had once called it the biggest open mental institution in the world , one of the twin armpits of the British Isles , presumably with Glasgow as the other , Glasgow before the tartan yuppies got to it . |
| 11 | She had n't rejected him the first time , though , just evaded a decision , wanting him to strengthen it somehow . |
| 12 | In this one it was n't quite so er , straightforward in that we , we had n't given you the actual activities to do . |
| 13 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 14 | It was only when they came out of the rearmost door and found a temporary hut facing them with Radio Room marked on the door , that they realised why they had n't found it the first time . |
| 15 | It 's quite good that that chap had actually showed you the right quote were n't it ? |