Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My agent had exposed himself as one of the conspirators . |
| 6 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 7 | I know , because Eliot told me : he also disclosed , what he usually kept to himself , that after the poet had drunk himself to death , and hearing that his widow was in difficulties , he had provided liberal help , though whether she was aware of the fact I do not know . |
| 8 | The laird who sought the politician 's aid had found himself in an embarrassing predicament when a brother had unexpectedly returned to the family estate after many years spent at sea . |
| 9 | His killer , a 16-year-old hired assassin who was wounded and captured , later claimed that a stranger had provided him with a submachine gun and directed him to kill the UP leader . |
| 10 | The priest had done it with orders for the pile of stones to be pulled down . |
| 11 | The fat Corporal had accompanied us to Lille station , bought us all a beer , and joined us on the train . |
| 12 | This was pronounced with a kind of funereal satisfaction , and for a moment Jackson could imagine the remorseless gossip that someone else 's tragedy had afforded her at the time . |
| 13 | Her notebook was there , the piece of paper Cobalt had given her with Barbara Coleman 's Nice address was there , everything she could recall was there except the keys . |
| 14 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 15 | That ribbon of distress had knotted itself about her , tightening around her stomach which suddenly felt overfull of coffee and food . |
| 16 | An ambulance had rushed him to hospital , but attempts to save him had failed . |
| 17 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 18 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 19 | Inspector Montgomery 's sudden termination of the interview had taken her by surprise initially , but now she understood his strategy . |
| 20 | Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor . |
| 21 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 22 | It was almost as if , after years of stolidly predictable behaviour , an old and respected great-uncle had declared himself to be a Buddhist or a Muslim or the follower of some obscure Eastern mystic , and , instead of keeping it to himself , insisted on dressing up in a variety of different-coloured kaftans and talking to people loudly about The Meaning of Life at drinks parties . |
| 23 | Last night 's lovemaking had changed everything for Sarella herself ; she had never guessed it could be like that , and she could n't imagine that it might not have been as earth-shattering for Marc too . |
| 24 | The average East German was unable to spend his holiday at the Black Sea , as the government-led tourist industry had allocated it to Westerners . |
| 25 | But as ENDS magazine pointed out , by February 1990 the electricity industry had committed itself to only one third of this : 4,000 MW of FGD . |
| 26 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 27 | I stuffed the sack down out of sight , and straightened , to see that my search had brought me above a cleft in the moorland through which a glimpse of the western machair could be seen . |
| 28 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 29 | I said when I was told the Echo had seconded me to a new day job , a comic career move . |
| 30 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |