Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suu Kyi had led the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) to a landslide election victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ] , but the country 's ruling military junta , the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , which had placed her under house arrest in mid-1989 , prevented the party from forming a government . |
| 2 | There was much he was not aware of in security operations , but the general had placed him in charge of the inquiry . |
| 3 | Last year we cracked an ex-display tank in this office — that was an adequate 6mm three footer and we had placed it on polystyrene tiles on top of two filing cabinets which were less than even . |
| 4 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 5 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 6 | His mouth felt dry , as if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 7 | It was if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 8 | Had hated her at sight . |
| 9 | Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it . |
| 10 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |
| 11 | Did Obispal 's associates realize that the rashly rampaging Inquisitor was only present in this auditorium courtesy of Jaq 's Assassin who had plucked him to safety ? |
| 12 | But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety . |
| 13 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 14 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 15 | Nature , he thought , had intended him for scholarship yet here he was at forty-six , still a small-town tradesman . |
| 16 | Those were the words she would choose , she decided vengefully , after Dame Sybil had tucked her into bed and returned to the hall . |
| 17 | A woman , leaning lightly on an ebony and silver cane , was rising slowly from the depths of the high-backed chair that had hidden her from view . |
| 18 | I had heard it in barrack rooms and Officers ' Messes all over England . |
| 19 | Marshka had received it by fax at his dacha , as they all had . |
| 20 | She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas . |
| 21 | She could find only her chequebook and the small , leather-bound directory Jasper had given her for Christmas and into which , to gratify the child , she had painstakingly copied the addresses and phone numbers of friends accumulated throughout a lifetime . |
| 22 | Her family was delighted although Fiona remembers her sister-in-law in America asking anxiously about the kitten James had given her for Christmas . |
| 23 | Remembering the kiss he had given her after breakfast it seemed as if their relationship might at long last have changed . |
| 24 | The old man was delighted with the packet of cigarettes Sid had given him in exchange for the cider . |
| 25 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 26 | She had given it with affection , but would have been forced — by custom , by law , and by John-William 's iron will — to give it anyway . |
| 27 | The Imperium had assigned them for life to Quintus , to assist in its uplift . |
| 28 | In 1984 Sir Antony Duff was moved to the directorship of MI5 , the Security Service , to clean it up after the Security Commission had criticized it as part of its investigation of the Bettaney affair . |
| 29 | His body ached mainly through lack of sleep , he told himself , reluctant to admit he was so unfit that a mile walk had drained him of energy . |
| 30 | Then Wally Watmough had called Frankie 's mam a gypsy-woman and his dad a little black man , and the smaller boy , enraged , had attacked him without thought for the consequences . |