Example sentences of "had [vb pp] with [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theda had gazed with awe upon the dish of ham and eggs , the lavishly buttered bread and the pot of tea , bereft of words . |
| 2 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 3 | The prime target of their discontent was Serrano , for he had intervened with Franco in an attempt to obtain clemency for the Falangists involved in what Galarza and Varela were presenting as an attack on the Army as an institution . |
| 4 | He also claimed that staff aides to the then Vice-President Bush had intervened with HUD in 1985 in order to win a $500,000 grant for a Kansas City developer , Hector Barreto , a longtime supporter of Bush . |
| 5 | In making his decision , he said , he had consulted with representatives from " Jordan , Yemen , Palestine , Sudan and the Arab Maghreb " and had been " encouraged " by " the decision of the Democratic Party in the US Senate and the European Parliament 's invitation to our Foreign Minister for dialogue " . |
| 6 | I suggested to Wilson that there had to be a short cooling-off period , after which Max Aitken would be a suitable person to go to Rhodesia as an unofficial ambassador , since in the war he had flown with Smith in the RAF and they had become good friends . |
| 7 | It was a picture I had examined with attention through many an hour of boring burble , raucous revivalist song and whining , wheezing harmonium . |
| 8 | When Harriet had telephoned with news of the birth , Liza 's mother-in-law had quickly passed her over to her husband . |
| 9 | Waverley 's opening statement came from vice-chair Michele Munro , who said the trust board felt it was time to offer the benefits former Scottish Homes tenants in the Borders had enjoyed with Waverley for the last four years to Tweeddale tenants . |
| 10 | They decided that this was because tritium from the heavy water had fused with deuterium in the rods . |
| 11 | The vote was boycotted by a rival faction led by Kenneth Matiba and Martin Shikuku , who had differed with Odinga over methods of selecting FORD 's presidential candidate [ see p. 39040 ] . |
| 12 | Thirty minutes earlier the radio had crackled with news of a definite sighting of the escapee Burrows , who had broken into a deserted farmhouse between Retford and Gainsborough . |
| 13 | The changes had met with howls of rage from the profession ; a host of cartoons in the press ; but above all a reduction in price for the consumer . |
| 14 | Both Major and Hurd had met with Patten in London on Nov. 14 to assure him of their backing . |
| 15 | Assad 's message had been endorsed publicly by the Libyan leader Col. Kadhafi as showing " unmistakable pan-Arab commitment " ; Assad as well as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and the Sudanese leader Gen. Bashir had met with Kadhafi at Misratah in Libya on Jan. 3 . |
| 16 | On his last visit home , to the university city of Uppsala , he had met with countrymen of his sister 's husband . |
| 17 | Darwin was a member of the landed aristocracy who had flirted with theology at Cambridge before becoming a highly respected naturalist . |
| 18 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |
| 19 | In October 1935 , in spite of the treaty of friendship he had made with Abyssinia in 1928 , Mussolini gave orders to the Italian army to invade . |
| 20 | There is so much in this strain that some of Andrewes ' biographers have tended to suggest that he was tormented by shame for the compromises which he had made with evil at Court and above all for his actions in the Essex divorce . |
| 21 | Joaquim , the next oldest after Martinho , had been the leader in their various scrapes ; even Rogerio ( who had died with Joaquim on the pillion in a motor-bike accident ) had seemed more remarkable than Osvaldo . |
| 22 | As they stamped their feet against the cold , Busacher strode towards them , and behind him Alfred , the company baritone who had sung with Therese in Die Fledermaus twenty years before . |
| 23 | Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election . |
| 24 | Both sides were spying on each other quite openly in the course of which many aggressive situations had occurred with loss of spy aircraft and their crews . |
| 25 | And she had slept with Rufus in the Centaur Room , it being taken for granted she would share his bed , though Adam did not think her wishes had been consulted . |
| 26 | He rejected the charge that he had acted with bias against the UK . |
| 27 | ‘ Now Maman has Montaine to herself , ’ Jean-Claude said without expression , adding that it would be a closer relationship than she had had with Montaine in life . |
| 28 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 29 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 30 | She remembered now the conversation she had had with Bella about the Lock . |