Example sentences of "[noun] had [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 2 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 7 | Jeff had mentioned it to her fleetingly , but had n't gone into details . |
| 8 | After what Jeff had told her about Guido Falcone , the only feelings she ought to have for him were disapproval and dislike . |
| 9 | Man of the match Smith admitted he would not have been surprised if Hick had pipped him to the award . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Everything about the odd relic suggested that Morthen had left it as a deliberate sign . |
| 15 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 16 | Samson had clouted her for burning it — the beginning of a long bad day . |
| 17 | Like many others , Schellenberg had seen it as employment , not as a political ideal , and his rise had been astonishing . |
| 18 | Donna had called them from Jackie Quinn 's house , telling Jackie there was nothing to worry about . |
| 19 | Donna had helped her onto the sofa , woken her gently but then realized that she was becoming hysterical . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Meredith had spotted him at an end of term production of You Never Can Tell at drama school . |
| 23 | My experience at the Fiesta Club had led me to the conclusion that , on average , a ‘ star ’ lasts about three years before fading to a nonentity and I intended to earn as much as possible in that time and retire — unhurt — with enough capital for a business . |
| 24 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 25 | Contrary to Cissie 's opinion , she herself was glad that David had stopped her from opening her heart to this impressionable young girl . |
| 26 | My contact with David had fired me with an interest in Peru again , a desire to engage with it beyond the level of annoyance . |
| 27 | Everything David had shown her of himself had made her love him and yet she believed that he had done something unspeakable . |
| 28 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 29 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 30 | The terrible Human-hungry creature that Fael-Inis had warned them against … |