Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] with [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An atmosphere of fear had descended with many witnesses too afraid to come forward , she added . |
| 2 | The eastern influence from Constantinople had merged with that of Italy to give a coherent style . |
| 3 | There had never been a hint of any romance between them , although their friendship had deepened with each meeting . |
| 4 | Maggie had dealt with that as best she could , taking it quietly and never complaining about the minor injustices which a teacher can inflict — work returned because of untidiness , petty sarcasms , rigorous enforcement of minor school rules . |
| 5 | After Brunel 's death , and in more prosperous times , work was recommenced on a modified design , as a tribute to the great man whose career as an independent engineer had begun with this project , and the bridge was finally opened to traffic in 1864 . |
| 6 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 7 | As a young man , Two-Dogs had fought with many armies of extras , firing off pretend guns at John Wayne in Stagecoach , Fort Apache , She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The Searchers . |
| 8 | Dod had agreed with that , but could n't quite remember where he 'd left the van . |
| 9 | Such efforts had met with little success from Liberal and Tory politicians alike . |
| 10 | Not only had Khrushchev denounced Stalin 's crimes ; the new warriors of perestroika , including Mikhail Gorbachev himself , were for the most part the Khrushchev generation , whose youthful idealism had coincided with that small post-Stalin thaw . |
| 11 | She learnt that Gamal had gone with some friends to an island off the coast of Florida , so she told the person who answered the telephone to get hold of him immediately at any cost and tell him to call his mother on a matter of the greatest urgency . |
| 12 | During the call she discovered that Gamal had gone with some of his friends to an island on the coast of Florida . |
| 13 | I had hoped that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment had dealt with that point very effectively . |
| 14 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 15 | Having thought he was hungry , he now realized that actually he needed anything rather than the overflowing plate of cholesterol the canteen at New Scotland Yard had provided with such admirable promptness . |
| 16 | It was some time since Robbie had woken with such a heavy burden of depression weighing on her chest . |
| 17 | Mrs Thatcher had emerged with much more confidence on the world stage by 1987 . |
| 18 | The court was told that there was no evidence that Tracey had interfered with any of the youngsters . |
| 19 | And Clive had coped with that . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 21 | It was most infuriating not to know what Gina had done with all the free loot . |
| 22 | By half past ten , Deirdre ( Molloy ) Kavanagh had parted with all her little triangles of tricoloured pastry , taken off her apron , drunk a few glasses of champagne , told several guests that broccoli was out of fashion , and was busily engaged in conversation with a television journalist who had just returned from making a programme for Charles in Iran . |
| 23 | Only a few short hours before , the world 's second highest rise of tide had arrived with that familiar roar , and in a little over three hours had filled the mile wide estuary with twenty five feet of salt water . |
| 24 | It was doubly ironic for Coventry who in the previous few minutes had attacked with more conviction than at any time throughout the game . |
| 25 | Dorothy had dealt with both of them , aided by Isobel 's giddy young sister-in-law , who had explained the social nuances of it all by saying : ‘ That pair of grasping alley cats would tear the eyes out of anyone who managed to make the social pages of the Tollemarche Advent on a day when they should have been featured . |
| 26 | This latter possibility had been uppermost in loyalist minds since January of the previous year when O'Neill had broken with all previous precedent and invited Sean Lemass to Stormont . |
| 27 | Mr Paisley denied a claim by Labour MP Dennis Skinner that Unionist politicians had agreed with both front benches ‘ to be silent about such atrocities ’ . |
| 28 | The fifth decade of the German Democratic Republic had dawned with many hundreds of its citizens behind bars after the brutal suppression of demonstrations throughout the country which continued late into Saturday night . |