Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking into her great eyes , their blue so dark that it was almost black , he was uncomfortably aware that having Miss Sally-Anne McAllister in the house was a most disturbing influence on a man who had not only denied himself sexually for some years , but who had rarely mixed with young women at all since he had left the army . |
| 2 | However , the quantitative methods of the 1960s and 1970s had successfully dealt with large-set vowel-variables ( type 1 ) , quantifying them through the whole range ( or most of it ) in a single unilinear dimension of phonetic variation ( such as raising or backing ) . |
| 3 | Standing between the two stone urns which Victoria had thoughtfully filled with pink geraniums and ivy the previous day , they made a pretty picture . |
| 4 | Anglicans and Protestants now not only heard the first systematic teaching on the word of God in the Church ever formulated by a Catholic Council ( for Trent had only dealt with particular points at issue with the Reformers ) , but also admired it . |
| 5 | Years before , he had suddenly exclaimed with bitter irony , ‘ You are quite the plush gentleman and I am the black sheep . ’ |
| 6 | Meanwhile Gundovald , a supposed son of Chlothar , who had been excluded from the succession in 561 , took advantage of the situation to revive his claim to the crown , which he had already asserted with Byzantine support in 582 . |
| 7 | The learned Chief Justice had already dealt with inevitable accident , so that he was presumably contemplating a case in which the presence of A's goods on C's land was due , not to that , but to the tort of A or of someone else for whose act A was in some way or other responsible . |
| 8 | His decision to sacrifice the newspaper to MacQuillan rather than sacrifice the estate to the newspaper had not met with universal approval , but he did not let that trouble him . |
| 9 | The reason that the protest was n't accepted by the courts in this country was that they had not protested with equivalent vigour at an earlier stage when the looted antiquities first appeared on the market . |
| 10 | On an upright chair sat a young man — shaven-headed and bovver- booted — who had come for treatment for ‘ a most embarrassing men 's illness ’ ( he would not elaborate ) which had not improved with orthodox therapy . |
| 11 | News had reached them while they were still in Sydney that the drought that had afflicted the Liverpool Plains earlier in the year had finally broken with abundant rains . |
| 12 | Throughout his career at the library , James constantly blocked efforts to improve security and cataloguing procedures , in particular those proposed by the director , Islamicist Wilfrid Lockwood , who had formerly worked with British Intelligence . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister , John Major , was reported to have made it clear that the Commonwealth was still a pillar of British foreign policy , together with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the European Communities , whereas his predecessor , Margaret Thatcher , had repeatedly clashed with other Commonwealth leaders . |
| 14 | Three patients ( two randomised to cisapride ) had originally presented with large or multiple chronic duodenal ulcers associated with small solitary areas of slough on either the incisura or in the prepyloric region . |
| 15 | America was not the only country where white men confronted a land that had originally teemed with big game . |
| 16 | On impulse Sally-Anne went to the kitchen and picked up a jam jar which she had earlier filled with sweet peas brought by a grateful patient who owned a little garden . |
| 17 | Since one main aim of the interventions was to delay the onset of smoking , never smoking was considered an appropriate primary indicator given the age of the pupils at baseline ( relatively few were current smokers or had previously experimented with smoking ) . |
| 18 | Some of them had previously experimented with fixed-term contracts but had found they imposed too much rigidity . |
| 19 | It was a shabby army-surplus shoulder-bag which someone had painstakingly embroidered with purple stars . |