Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was substantially made of strong timber and my father had painted it green — the livery colour of the London and South Western Railway . |
| 2 | His muse had taught him Irish — his nurse had taught him Irish , beg your pardon — and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth . |
| 3 | His muse had taught him Irish — his nurse had taught him Irish , beg your pardon — and shaped his rude imagination by the broken lights of Irish myth . |
| 4 | They had tried twice before , and on each occasion they had been pursued relentlessly through the forests by hostile Moi tribesmen who had stripped them naked , lashed their hands behind them and led them back to the plantation roped together at the neck with twisted creepers . |
| 5 | ‘ I never meant to challenge him , I was carving only to pass my time — ’ His voice faded out wretchedly on the disclaimer , for that , too , was spoiled and finished now that Isambard had stripped it bare . |
| 6 | Chile 's previous period of democracy and the way that the labour movement had developed it independent , political base and strong organisational structure during that time , made possible the development of militant collective action on the part of the proletariat . |
| 7 | The echoing sounds of Mac 's voice coming from those walls in his dreams had shaken him awake , clutching at the sheets , sweat oozing from every pore . |
| 8 | It had stopped him dead , for a moment . |
| 9 | Hugh breathed heavily like a man who was dreaming and opened his eyes with a start as though his dream had frightened him awake . |
| 10 | One who had given me invaluable help in tracking down German sources and participants was a sixty-year-old cultural attaché at the German Embassy by the name of Herbert Sulzbach . |
| 11 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 12 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 13 | He tried to hide the crease of worry on his features , but when she asked him whether the debtors had given him extra time he frowned and shook his head . |
| 14 | His mother had given him contrary messages . |
| 15 | ‘ We , the second generation of Pininfarina , had given him great joy and pride . |
| 16 | In a lengthy letter he gave thanks to the Duke of Bedford and to the House of Russell and to the Earl of Upper Ossory , who had given him great support throughout his period of office . |
| 17 | Spending his five shillings had given him great satisfaction , particularly as none of it had been wasted . |
| 18 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 19 | Keith also revealed that his estranged wife , TV presenter Maggie Philbin , had given him brilliant support throughout his personal crisis . |
| 20 | His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls . |
| 21 | The articles opened with the comprehensively damning statement that the king ‘ is not sufficient to govern ’ because throughout his reign he had been led and governed by others who had given him evil counsel , to the dishonour of himself and the destruction of Holy Church and his people , and he had refused to provide any remedy , or to allow one to be made , when he was asked to do so by the great and wise men of his realm . |
| 22 | He had a good later reputation , and according to Osbern was very acceptable to Cnut because he had given him holy chrism . |
| 23 | The segregation of servants from the family had already begun at Coleshill , the ancestor of the Palladian houses of the eighteenth century , where Roger Pratt , who believed that a house should be ‘ so contrived … that the ordinary servants may never publicly appear in passing to and from for their occasions there ’ , had given them separate rooms , adjacent to their masters , so that they no longer slept at his door or at the foot of his bed . |
| 24 | The war , far from finishing off the machine of modernity , had given it new life . |
| 25 | Pugin 's advocacy of the Gothic as a Christian , not pagan , architecture , had given it moral overtones . |
| 26 | One obvious problem about the regent 's earlier policy of marrying her daughter to the dauphin is why leading Scottish Protestants like lord James Stewart and John Erskine of Dun had not only accepted this symbolic and political consolidation of the alliance with Catholic France , but had given it positive support , being among those who negotiated it . |
| 27 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 28 | Moltke , by reinforcing his left wing at the expense of his right , had given it sufficient strength to resist attack but insufficient to mount a crushing counter-attack . |
| 29 | Delaney scrambled to his feet , lurching from the effects of shock and concussion , knowing only that he had to be sure ; had to see it dead . |
| 30 | It used to be that if you wished something to look white on television you had to paint it yellow . |