Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris gave the immediate illusion of spaciousness and grandeur ; the swelling pride of Louix XIV and Napoleon had expressed itself in truly monumental architecture . |
| 2 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 3 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 4 | Nellie had put him to bed thinking it was a cold , then hearing of the scarlet fever in Newry through Tommy Drennan , she sent for Dr Nolan at once . |
| 5 | Frank Spencer had endeared himself to so many people that Crawford 's wish to leave the character behind was tempered by the pleasure it had clearly brought . |
| 6 | Tammuz Malamute abused the body Ewan had bequeathed him for years , telling himself he 'd buried the past , until the day he woke up and a voice inside reminded him that Ari Famber was fourteen years old . |
| 7 | Dewi had wanted her to be independent , to fend for herself when he was no longer there to take care of her , but he could not have known that his death would have come so suddenly , striking him down in the prime of his manhood . |
| 8 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 9 | Jeff had mentioned it to her fleetingly , but had n't gone into details . |
| 10 | After what Jeff had told her about Guido Falcone , the only feelings she ought to have for him were disapproval and dislike . |
| 11 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 12 | From what Neil had told me over supper last night , I knew that the main bird colonies were on the western side of the island , where the cliffy coastline was cut into deep gullies , some of them sheer , and some filled with tumbles of massed boulders . |
| 13 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 14 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 15 | Ours was a one-off Section in that we had n't been sent to Castelnaudary where things were reputed to be much easier , and where there was a spirit of prevailing moderation which had pervaded the Legion since Mitterrand had brought it into line with the rest of the French army . |
| 16 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 17 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 18 | Samson had clouted her for burning it — the beginning of a long bad day . |
| 19 | Like many others , Schellenberg had seen it as employment , not as a political ideal , and his rise had been astonishing . |
| 20 | The defendant had placed himself in a position where his duty and interest conflicted even though both the employee and client appear to have had no intention of remaining with the plaintiff . |
| 21 | Soviet and foreign relief organizations had installed themselves with efficiency and were giving out free food . |
| 22 | All three brothers had settled themselves in the area , Nathan 's being a pleasant semi-detached residence of three storeys . |
| 23 | Donna had called them from Jackie Quinn 's house , telling Jackie there was nothing to worry about . |
| 24 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
| 25 | In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers , Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward . |
| 26 | He had gagged for hours following the ordeal , convinced that one of the dog 's hairs had lodged itself at the very back of his throat where his fingers were unable to reach . |
| 27 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 28 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 29 | Thinking in terms of his mother 's back yard in Hoylake , the washing sagging between poplar trees , Meredith had prepared himself for details of death . |
| 30 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |