Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewan had seen you leap on Hector , and struck out at you — I tried to hold back his blow ! ’ |
| 2 | But Maggie had heard him draw notes out of it which rent the air with their sadness , and through his music she 'd seen a side of him he 'd kept hidden from the world . |
| 3 | Eva could be snobby , that was obvious , but if I saw something , or heard a piece of music , or visited a place , I would n't be content until Eva had made me see it in a certain way . |
| 4 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 5 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 6 | It was the following day , a Tuesday ; Ben Hesketh had arrived again , this time with a big estate car , and Ruth had helped him load the crates into the back . |
| 7 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 8 | Hayling had let them know that the move would complicate his personal life . |
| 9 | It was the first time Pumfrey had heard anyone use the word ‘ misgives ’ . |
| 10 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 11 | Tammuz' jaded beliefs were not that novel : Quincx had heard them spill from many a Tech-Green 's lips ; but then Ewan had always thought himself unique . |
| 12 | When Quinn put down the phone , it was the first time Sam had seen him appear visibly shaken . |
| 13 | Nicola had made me go and see if he was okay and I said yes he was , because I 'd seen his eye move and I left him there . |
| 14 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 15 | She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before . |
| 16 | Visits to sports grounds in London and Birmingham had made me realize just how many second generation black kids were following the likes of Hope and Cunningham and channelling their efforts into sport . |
| 17 | And , as Dalgliesh had heard him argue , for all their demands for equality of status and opportunity , putting them in the front line behind the riot shields , taking the petrol bombs , the hurled stones and now the bullets , only made the job of their male colleagues even more onerous . |
| 18 | In the end , Coleman had to let it pass , although he contrived not to pay for the footage , and duly noted the DEA 's systematic corruption of the media in one of his back-channel reports to Donleavy . |
| 19 | Because Florian Jones had made him believe that she was innocent of all that he had accused her of . |
| 20 | Was that why Benjamin had let me go ? |
| 21 | Once Nour had made me laugh , but then I had laughed — like the nuns — more from happiness than mirth . |
| 22 | I had wanted to be a nun before Nour had made me love him with his golden hair and his golden face and his golden eyes . |
| 23 | For Bridgnorth had made me resolve that I would never more go among a people that had been hardened in unprofitableness under an awakening ministry … |
| 24 | Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck . |
| 25 | Everything Suzanna had made me feel was alive again , magnified a hundred times . |
| 26 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 27 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 28 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 29 | Charlotte had seen him turn in the doorway to speak to Mrs Lane , whose placid smile indicated that she knew and welcomed him . |