Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 2 | The excitement of this first fall of rain had filled her with a desire that things should be different , that she should be happy again . |
| 3 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 4 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 5 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 6 | After the Blefuscans had arranged everything with the Lilliputian officials , they came to visit me . |
| 7 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 8 | There was persistent rumour ( probably close to the truth ) bandied about by the local gentry , that Anthony Foster had hidden himself with a paid labourer at Cumnor Place . |
| 9 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
| 10 | Yet he had pursued her with a single-minded intent that was unnerving . |
| 11 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |
| 12 | Treadwell certainly had n't mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop . |
| 13 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 14 | And the dear , good man had designed Almsmead , in the centre of a green field ; had surrounded it with a rose-garden ; given her apple trees and a lily-pond ; a trellised , covered walk down to the river with its clear , clean water in which she could see smooth pebbles and little silvery fishes instead of the slime and gas bubbles and dead cats one saw — if one had the stomach to look — in Frizingley 's canal . |
| 15 | They had shopped round Belfast and she had teased her with the idea that this Parr was very rich , they had gone by train to Dublin and she had claimed he was ‘ hand in glove ’ with government circles there . |
| 16 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 17 | She frequently had to pinch herself with the absurdity of it all . |
| 18 | It was as if she had shot him with a tranquillising dart . |
| 19 | Nina had stabbed him with the syringe . |
| 20 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 21 | They also knew that the arrested men were respectable and law-abiding and they were highly indignant when they heard that an official spokesman had smeared them with the suggestion of criminal activities . |
| 22 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 23 | Instead , they had fed it with the only food he knew . |
| 24 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 25 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 26 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 27 | Her dress had been made by a local dressmaker who had made it with a deep frill of black satin round the neck . |
| 28 | The previous type may then have become invalid , and coin users presumably had to replace it with the new one , a troublesome process , as the volume of some types ran into millions of coins . |
| 29 | I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured . |
| 30 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |