Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 2 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 3 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 4 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 5 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 6 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 7 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 8 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 9 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 10 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 11 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 12 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 13 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 14 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 15 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 16 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 17 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
| 18 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 19 | Simon , however , would n't hear of it , and had joined her in the kitchen to help with the dishes . |
| 20 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 21 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 22 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 23 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 24 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 25 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 26 | The Verulamium report was to hand , as Maurice had included it in the School library . |
| 27 | She had never liked the arrangement that had installed her in the Ward household , but having heard the tragic story , and knowing how much it meant to the woman who had rescued her from a life of loneliness , how could she refuse ? |
| 28 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 29 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 30 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |