Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’ |
| 2 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 3 | By the time Oldfield and his bride-to-be at last arrived , Joan and Richard had fallen to speculating which of the marriages would end in divorce . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the middle classes would have been shocked and appalled if the workers had actually asked for the sort of life they themselves took for granted , and even more if they had looked like achieving it . |
| 5 | It was reported on May 5 that the Interior Minister in the AIG and a member of the Hezb-e Islami , Yunus Khales , had resigned after accusing his colleagues of " complicity " with the Kabul-based government . |
| 6 | Ralph had succeeded in proving his descent from his great-grandfather , a grocer in Whitstable , who had married in 1838 . |
| 7 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 8 | She had succeeded in damning him with the faintest of eulogies . |
| 9 | But a dull flush was creeping up her neck , and colouring her cheeks , and she felt furious with herself for the tell-tale signs of insecurity , for the ease with which the other girl had succeeded in humiliating her … |
| 10 | The second movement was just ending , and had succeeded in stabilising her to a certain extent . |
| 11 | The retiring incumbents had both served in their posts since 1983 and both had succeeded in bringing their respective enterprises out of loss and into profit . |
| 12 | He had succeeded in pleasing her in spite of everything that had happened . |
| 13 | Immediately some commentators claimed that she and Prince Charles had succeeded in mending their marriage , while others sniffed cynically that in private nothing had changed . |
| 14 | Faced , therefore , with the apparent metamorphosis of a colonial war and continuing French sacrifices for what were now declared to be American purposes , the US had succeeded in trapping itself . |
| 15 | The point she had made was an obvious one , but , till now , he had succeeded in overlooking it . |
| 16 | She was especially furious that someone had succeeded in making her jump and yell like that because she prided herself on her toughness . |
| 17 | At first he had suggested it might be fairer to everyone if he were to leave Kentucky and find work elsewhere — perhaps even return to England — but Cora-Beth had succeeded in making him see that there was absolutely no need for him to do so . |
| 18 | And intuition told her that with Nathan it would be very different from the painful , greedy , and self-absorbed fumbling Giles had inflicted on her before she had succeeded in fighting him off . |
| 19 | The servants had not been keen to let him see the man , but his rank and vague remarks about the importance of co-operation with the Grand Army had succeeded in securing him an interview . |
| 20 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 21 | ‘ As daylight , ’ she snapped , before giving a heavy sigh as she realised that , yet again , the horrid man had succeeded in putting her in the wrong . |
| 22 | She had been determined not to give anything of herself away to him , but he had succeeded in antagonising her to such a pitch that she almost could n't help herself . |
| 23 | He was still cursing Midnight with great beery breaths , but had succeeded in finding her waist and was inching his hand up towards her breast . |
| 24 | And perhaps , indeed , he had succeeded in corrupting her . |
| 25 | Grant sensed he had succeeded in needling his opponent and tensed himself in readiness . |
| 26 | He resolved to push on , despite the fact that Ruzski and Brusilov , though advancing tardily , were now at most 48km/30mls from severing the northern Austrian armies from their line of retreat and Plehve had succeeded in extricating his army from encirclement . |
| 27 | Though earlier Joseph 's brothers had planned to kill him , and had succeeded in selling him into slavery , the story 's final scene in Genesis 50 showed sincere confessions of guilt , moving declarations of love and all fear finally removed . |
| 28 | And after she had succeeded in doing it once , Sylvia began to reverse the whole process so that those signs of panic would never appear again . |
| 29 | She sometimes thought that Madame Chardin 's school had succeeded in turning her , despite herself , into what that portentous lady called a ‘ European ’ . |
| 30 | He glanced over his left shoulder and saw the three other officers were still two hundred yards away , then a shouted challenge from his right revealed that the French Lieutenant had succeeded in turning his horse and was now spurring back to make a new attack . |