Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] the " in BNC.
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1 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
2 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
3 | Sean had been bought a replacement knife by Wainfleet and had forgiven him the theft of the first . |
4 | A long , indented coastline , with many harbours on both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean , gave her easy access to the oceans and had made her the economic centre of the world . |
5 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
6 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |