Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 2 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 3 | Her feelings on that day had been so overpowering , had filled her with such sharp pleasure that always she hoped that their ghosts must still be lingering among the leaves . |
| 4 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 5 | In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction . |
| 6 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 7 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 8 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 9 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 10 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 11 | She shook her head in exasperation , remembering his deception and total lack of sympathy , the way he had treated her on that first night , that following morning . |
| 12 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 13 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 14 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 15 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 16 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 17 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
| 18 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 19 | The constant upheaval of her life had parted her from any close friends and her own quiet , withdrawn manner kept most people at arm 's length . |
| 20 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 21 | It certainly would not be the sinister Treelike beings who had regarded him with such terrible vengeance in their unnatural faces ! |
| 22 | It was the first time Carolyn had heard her without that note of irony in her voice . |
| 23 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 24 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 25 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
| 26 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 27 | You had to wear them at certain times . |
| 28 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 29 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
| 30 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |