Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | There had never been a hint of any romance between them , although their friendship had deepened with each meeting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had hoped that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment had dealt with that point very effectively . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |