Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Intelligence Corps instructor who had taught him the trade would have had such a lock open with one twist but Maxim was out of practice and the lock was old and arthritic . |
| 2 | Sean had been bought a replacement knife by Wainfleet and had forgiven him the theft of the first . |
| 3 | When she had finished , she sat down at the kitchen table with the envelope Tracey had given her the night before . |
| 4 | He looked at her and understood why her parents had given her the name . |
| 5 | Her instructor had given her the name of a boy who was selling a sailboard and who would be here in time for the afternoon race . |
| 6 | When he had given her the keys and the egg , and had left her , she first put the egg away with great care , and then examined the house , and at last went into the forbidden room . |
| 7 | She remembered how he had given her the creeps . |
| 8 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 9 | Her mother , anxious to get to work , had given her the day off school . |
| 10 | She was so near to tears that her only outlet was to tell the whole sorry tale , including the news that Joanna had given her the day before . |
| 11 | In actual fact Rosemary had given her the idea about deglamorising herself , but it was with truth , when , feeling forced to reply , Leith answered , ‘ I 've worked hard for my qualifications . |
| 12 | Moira Griffin , of Edgecombe Drive , explained that the death of a homeless man had given her the idea of knitting for the people who use the hostel . |
| 13 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 14 | Later , after returning home , in bed with his wife , the merchant taxes her about not having told him the monk had given her the money ; she claims that she thought the money the monk gave her was gift , and that she has already used it to buy clothing ; she will pay , she says , her debts to her husband in bed . |
| 15 | Anne had given her the parcel to post two days ago and she had completely forgotten all about it . |
| 16 | He had given her the excuse as usual . |
| 17 | He had held on to her hand as her flight was called , and it had given her the way out without tears . |
| 18 | Anna had explained , and it had given her the opportunity to describe details her daughter found miraculous . |
| 19 | She was the organist of a village church , and the freedom from long hours in a shop , or former office work , had given her the opportunity of practising more on her dearly loved organ . |
| 20 | She glanced across to Raynor again , and saw him bow his head in brief acknowledgement , and she smiled inwardly , for it was Raynor who had given her the clue , the idea , the knowledge of how to approach his people . |
| 21 | Baptiste Taillé had given her the signal . |
| 22 | But altogether her uncle Bean had given her the stiffening she needed . |
| 23 | When Lyddy had gone , Alexandra went to one of her huge wardrobes and from beneath a pile of linen drew out the little morocco volume Aunt Emily had given her the evening of her arrival . |
| 24 | It was too late to ring Defence — early evening in London by now — but Maxim had given her the number of one of George 's military clubs and she left the name of Anglam Gateway and its solicitors with the secretary there . |
| 25 | It seemed as though anger had given her the strength that rest in bed had failed to produce . |
| 26 | Then , too , she had felt rather shy of him since Christmas when he had given her the violets and had tried not to encourage his obvious interest in her . |
| 27 | Stephen had given her the task of co-ordinating the interiors for the hotel , following the design schemes he had commissioned from a well-known Paris-based designer . |
| 28 | The Hochhauser Season had given her the courage to defy Georg — not to quarrel with him , she did n't want to do that — but to make it plain she was now her own woman , with her own life to lead , a life that might or might not include him . |
| 29 | But if she told them Nina had given her the go-ahead , and Nina discovered the lie , she would be out . |
| 30 | Jenny was the girl she lived with , and the one who had given her the impetus to finally escape the suffocating love of her father and uncle in Hong Kong . |