Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire . |
| 2 | So far , I had behaved with great restraint . |
| 3 | Late one afternoon as I was packing some old boots I had begged with wet slack and tea leaves to use as fuel on the fire the door was flung open and Dad stumbled in . |
| 4 | Environmental organizations led by Greenpeace , the World Wide Fund for Nature and the Australian Conservation Foundation had spearheaded the campaign , which had met with strong support from the Australian and French governments . |
| 5 | This would effectively replace the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities ( Cramra — see p. 36062 ) , which had met with widespread opposition , and which Japan alone now supported . |
| 6 | He himself had aspired with eminent success : the conception was a self-educator 's dream . |
| 7 | The initial Lutheran challenge to papal authority in 1517 had ushered in an age in which Europe would be divided into hostile confessional camps , but , despite the fact that he himself had dispensed with papal authority within his own realm , Henry VIII had been extremely reluctant to accept this reality . |
| 8 | I realise she had attended with other children and it 's no easy task to keep track on all of them . |
| 9 | She had examined with analytical precision her empty and disgusting marriage with an impotent old man , and her candid delight at the death that had put an end to it . |
| 10 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
| 11 | She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny . |
| 12 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 13 | Prince Philip asked if she had co-operated with royal writer Andrew Morton as he prepared his best-seller Diana : Her True Story . |
| 14 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |
| 15 | Through that illusion she had walked with blessed speed , and out beyond it into a world of other possibilities . |
| 16 | She had disappeared with Old Red into her duty-room and closed the door before I left Casualty . |
| 17 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 18 | She had counter-attacked with bright lampshades and curtains , but she had n't won . |
| 19 | Four up for S-Sugar , she had thought with bitter satisfaction . |
| 20 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it 's all gorgeous ! ’ she had enthused with real feeling . |
| 22 | Of course she could n't leave Henrietta alone in the house , the tall building she had bought with great-aunt Dorothy 's money . |
| 23 | In 1954 a fish was retrieved from the lower trachea and right bronchus of a 14 year old boy who had presented with acute severe dyspnoea after swallowing a live fish . |
| 24 | Ordinary soldiers , who had enlisted with equal patriotic fervour , took comfort in simple but pungent humour , typified by Bruce Barinsfather 's cartoon showing ‘ Old Bill ’ , a war veteran , taking refuge in a shell hole and remarking to a young recruit , ‘ Well , if you knows of a better ‘ ole , go to it . ’ |
| 25 | Bill , who had heard with great pleasure many of the greats including Menuhin , Beecham , Barbirolli during his Newcastle days , went . |
| 26 | Swedish international Henrik Gustafsson won two of the last three heats to give King 's Lynn a 47–43 success over Swindon , who had struck with maximum points in the first race from Mitch Shirra and Standing . |
| 27 | I served on the Committee which dealt with what is now the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , in the hope that I could draw on my own experience as chairman of the Cardiff juvenile bench , and as someone who had worked with young offenders . |
| 28 | However while there is one national study ( Bourner and Hamed 1987 ) which compares the performance of graduates who had entered with non-traditional qualifications with those who were traditionally qualified , this deals only with those obtaining CNM first degrees . |
| 29 | Before she left , the Princess Royal became the first signatory to the new Napier University Visitors Book and on her departure , one of Napier 's youngest ‘ students ’ , four-year-old Kirsty Hutton who had come with other children from Napier 's crèche to wave goodbye to the Princess , presented her with a posy . |
| 30 | Bast of all , though , was the room to come back to : large , cool and spotless with air-conditioning , sun-trap balcony and a fridge we had stocked with chilled goodies . |