Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Or meant to have replied , but perhaps she had not , perhaps the knowledge of later years had imposed itself on that first memory . |
| 3 | He was a good-looking man in his late thirties , and Fran had met him on several occasions but had never liked him , finding something faintly repugnant about the way he stood on the outside of life looking in , searching for anything unsavoury . |
| 4 | On certain feast days , the gates of the inner sanctuary where the reliquary was kept-were opened , and it became visible , in its tabernacle behind the statue ; when they were shut , visitors had to peep through the bars : the grille was shiny where hands had gripped it on either side to get a glimpse . |
| 5 | Nor am I. ’ She was restless , moving uneasily about the hut as once before , curious but preoccupied , and slow to come to what had brought her on this errand . |
| 6 | From the age of 22 she had cut herself on many occasions . |
| 7 | Fate had branded him on that October night as a gangster and a street-fighter . |
| 8 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 9 | In testimony to a House subcommittee in late April and early May , DuBois L. Gilliam , a former HUD official currently serving a prison sentence for manipulating housing grants , alleged that former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce had ordered him on several occasions to award HUD grants on political considerations . |
| 10 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |