Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 8 | As E. Welbourne showed in ‘ Bankruptcy Before the Era of Victorian Reform ’ , ‘ men in prison who had stripped themselves of all they had , could produce £2,500 in notes from under the bed . ’ |
| 9 | The constant upheaval of her life had parted her from any close friends and her own quiet , withdrawn manner kept most people at arm 's length . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It certainly would not be the sinister Treelike beings who had regarded him with such terrible vengeance in their unnatural faces ! |
| 12 | It was the first time Carolyn had heard her without that note of irony in her voice . |
| 13 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 14 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 17 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 18 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 19 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 20 | Sarah had joined them through another miracle , a cloak thrown by Mary Jacobus which upheld her feet on the water . |
| 21 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |
| 22 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 23 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 24 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 25 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 26 | He had expected something like this , and had picked his spot to call Doyle very carefully . |
| 27 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 28 | ‘ I had expected you before this , Mr Beckenham , ’ said the lawyer with a twinkle , setting a chair for his client to sit down in the drawing-room of the small house that served also for his office . |
| 29 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 30 | He was a man who , like Marius Steen , had risen from humble origins to immense wealth and had surrounded himself with all the symbols of the established aristocracy . |