Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were going to take on the ones we had last time . |
| 2 | ‘ Come in , Master Clerk , ’ he called , throwing down the manuscript he had been studying . |
| 3 | Franco put down the glass he had been drying and wrapped the towel round his bare arm . |
| 4 | Lower down the page he had scribbled a quotation from Shelley : ‘ Life stains the white radiance of Eternity ’ . |
| 5 | Susan laid down the paper she had been reading , and with one gloved hand made a little peep-hole on the steamy window of the railway carriage . |
| 6 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 7 | Cleo sighed , and opened her mouth to speak , but at that moment the door to the parlour creaked and Drago Dratslinger and his mistress brought in the meal they had prepared for their guests , and the talk turned to that of wood and spirits , of how to trap a wandering soul . |
| 8 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 9 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 10 | Huy handed over the fee she had demanded . |
| 11 | She went to the full-length mirror beside her dressing-table , pulling off the headband she had worn in the bath and releasing the glossy brown hair that tumbled almost to her shoulders . |
| 12 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 13 | Manville played up the empathy he had established . |
| 14 | She put the violin back into its case , picked up the bundle she had made of her coat and thrust it under her arm as she hoisted up her suitcase . |
| 15 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 16 | Everywhere he went in the tiny house he saw her : sitting at the table , sewing , on her knees , blackleading the grate , laughing at him as she handed him his cup of tea or coffee , and holding up the doll she had dressed for him to admire . |
| 17 | When Martha had gone as well , Tim picked up the whisky he had poured earlier and stood for a long time in the hallway . |
| 18 | She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading . |
| 19 | She could hardly follow up the exchange they had just had with a question about his relationship with Puddephat . |
| 20 | There was , Henry felt , something rather unsavoury about Maltby. perhaps that was why he had never worked up the notes he had made on the case . |
| 21 | She held up the notes she had copied down from the drums in the German docks . |
| 22 | The Watchmaker , having wound up the watch he had made , had retired elsewhere , presumably for contemplation . |
| 23 | Then began scuttering backwards and forwards like a small , frightened mouse , picking up the things they had dropped , clothes in the bedroom , toothpaste tube in the bathroom . |
| 24 | The prince scraped up the money they had set aside to repair the roof again and Anna went off to India with some English acquaintances and stayed with the viceroy and came back with a ruby . |
| 25 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 26 | He went through to his room and picked up the bag he had packed earlier , then went to the small desk in the corner and took a tiny notebook from the drawer . |
| 27 | ‘ What are you doing up here anyway ? ’ he demanded , leaning over to pick up the towel he had left on the seat . |
| 28 | To make up the numbers he had the Dutch-Belgian army , over thirty thousand infantrymen in all , which he did not trust at all . |
| 29 | By the time they had eaten up the crumbs they had forgotten the way out and in their hunger ate the insulation from the wiring . |
| 30 | In the end he had relented , and agreed to take up the career she had chosen for him . |