Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 3 | In 1984 I had run in a makeshift team against the projected Olympic foursome . |
| 4 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 5 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 6 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
| 7 | Already I had put in a formal application to Gladstone Murray for a producer 's post with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , and Ernie Bushnell suggested I submit a programme script for consideration . |
| 8 | Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived . |
| 9 | This she had painted in a warm red tone , which complemented the dark wood and brass handles of her grandfather 's furniture . |
| 10 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 11 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 12 | Diana was flattered , flustered and bewildered by the passion she had aroused in a man twelve years her senior . |
| 13 | But she had lived with a dragon for over ten years , and she had lived in a house filled with strong women , so she knew that there was something very wrong with that scenario . |
| 14 | She replied that she had lived in a small group of about 10 people : she indicated the number by holding up both hands with the fingers spread . |
| 15 | It seemed to her now that she had lived in a dream . |
| 16 | She has been the guardian of this wishing tree in the English churchyard since anyone alive can remember , though before that , the rumour was that she had lived in a wild state , before the islands were properly civilised . |
| 17 | She had dressed in a vivid red blouse and a loose woollen blue cardigan , and she had tied her long dark hair into a pony tail with an orange scarf . |
| 18 | She had dressed in a hurry . |
| 19 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 20 | ‘ Do n't worry , Matey , ’ he said to her , leaving the room of many memories , putting his arms about her , seeing with new eyes how old she had grown , and that he was all she had , the last of the many children for whom she had cared in a long life of selfless service . |
| 21 | She had taught in a language school in Birmingham three mornings a week , a language school with a crèche , run by an enlightened Belgian woman , where Charlotte and Luke had gone until they were old enough for school . |
| 22 | She wondered , laughing as Sabina jogged her , for she had halted in a daydream , what it would be like to encourage him , to overcome the scruples he so kindly showed by not exploring her body . |
| 23 | But not before she had answered in a firm tone , ‘ Definitely . ’ |
| 24 | She had stayed in a Delhi shack made of biscuit tins and a tarpaulin . |
| 25 | She had stopped in a busy street in Cardiff city centre after a shopping trip , and left the engine running after hearing a strange noise . |
| 26 | She had spoken in a low voice , but M. Dupont behind me exclaimed immediately : ‘ Ah , good ! ’ |
| 27 | She replied : ‘ Yes thank you , ’ although some reporters said that she had spoken in a ‘ soulful way ’ and appeared quite miserable . |
| 28 | She had worked in a laboratory . |
| 29 | She had left in a black fury . |
| 30 | His aunt and her daughter stayed to hear if there was anything of interest in the will which she had left in a drawer , but they went disappointed , giving Tim a couple of moist hugs on their way out . |