Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 2 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 3 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 4 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 5 | By the age of thirty he had proven himself in the communications industry . |
| 6 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 7 | Pete had arranged himself in the passenger seat so that he could get his feet up on the dashboard . |
| 8 | The idea of a National Government , then , had implanted itself in the mind of the King , and in that of his closest adviser , as a possible solution to the economic crisis which many felt to be imminent . |
| 9 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 10 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 11 | Even so , she had hidden herself in the claustrophobic cabin , afraid she might be recognized . |
| 12 | From their own number they chose Bel Shanaar , Prince of Tiranoc , an Elf who had distinguished himself in the war and yet was seen as a voice of peace and reason . |
| 13 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 14 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 15 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 16 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 17 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 18 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 19 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 20 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 21 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 22 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 23 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 24 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 25 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 26 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 27 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 28 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 29 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 30 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |