Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as a girl , she herself had been taken through the world , as through a series of doors , by her young husband , each door opening on to fresh joys and colours and perspectives , and she had exclaimed in delight , followed him , learned , and even afterwards , when the final door had shut , she could retrace her steps , spend a longer and longer time in each place , as in a series of gardens , and gratefully . |
| 2 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 3 | ‘ Moreover , on general principles , it would in my judgment be a plain interference with or usurpation of an owner 's rights by the customer if he were to remove a label which the owner had placed on goods or put another label on . |
| 4 | Parsons did not substantially alter this view , and as a result lost the stress Freud had placed on conflict . |
| 5 | An independent inquiry carried out for the DTI by Sir Godfrey le Quesne QC in 1989 emphasised the reliance the DTI had placed on Spicers ' opinion in granting BC a licence in 1985 . |
| 6 | A strange setting for the Tunstall heiress , all this — ’ And he swept his hand around the shabby room , noting the protective arm which Dr Neil had placed around Sally-Anne 's shoulders . |
| 7 | It was a standard interview room and the only non-regulation items to break the monotony of tube-legged table and chairs were the cigarettes , lighter and an ashtray advertising Tuborg lager which Malpass had placed in front of himself . |
| 8 | She and Astrid had lollopped through gin sparkling with fresh limes and tonic ; late-night hand-warmed brandy , summer wines lighting each day . |
| 9 | He 'd remembered the Walther Steve had brandished in Evelyn 's Wandsworth house . |
| 10 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 11 | We left them on the boat while we wandered into the town to discuss with Sunsail a fuel tank that a previous charterer had filled with water instead of diesel . |
| 12 | The dust blew round his feet and often he rubbed his eyes because they had filled with water . |
| 13 | Eddie 's eyes had filled with tears . |
| 14 | He was quick to comfort her , for her blue eyes had filled with tears . |
| 15 | Louise 's eyes had filled with tears and she had gripped Zoe 's arm hard . |
| 16 | She was shaking and her mouth had filled with saliva . |
| 17 | She knew perfectly well he 'd been trying to hide the fact that he 'd come alive as the streets had filled with people . |
| 18 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 19 | The attempt had failed , and the queen had withdrawn to sanctuary with her youngest son , the duke of York . |
| 20 | At Rass he heard that Ibrahim was evacuating all but the Hijaz and had withdrawn to Medina . |
| 21 | Once Iraq had withdrawn from Kuwait , the Soviet Union and the United States would work with countries in the region to develop regional security structures and measures to promote peace and stability . |
| 22 | That night , with our generator and four lightbulbs , we illuminated the Keraing 's house and electrified the village for the first time in the thirty-odd years since the invading Japanese had withdrawn from Indonesia . |
| 23 | The Seville Junta behaved with criminal selfishness and , but for the moderation of its general , it might have declared war on Granada ; it refused to send the Andalusian Army to the critical Ebro front where the French , after Joseph had withdrawn from Madrid in the panic caused by the defeat of French corps by the patriots of Bailén , were massing for a reinvasion of Spain . |
| 24 | France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues . |
| 25 | The main cause for concern was the dominant role of France , which had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 and had since taken an independent line in defence matters . |
| 26 | Besides that , Soviet troops had withdrawn from Afghanistan and a whole range of nuclear missiles had been destroyed . |
| 27 | He brought an action against the chairman and secretary of the club , as officers of the club , claiming that they were liable for the injuries he had sustained by reason of the condition of the club 's premises . |
| 28 | The army that was fighting there , particularly its professional component , was still bruised by the defeat it had sustained in Indochina in the early 1950s and was determined not to repeat the experience . |
| 29 | Pawlak also dismissed the head of Polish radio and television , Zbigniew Romaszewski , and reinstated his predecessor , Janusz Zaorski , whom Olszewski had dismissed on May 19 . |
| 30 | Le Monde of Sept. 29 quoted Djohar as alleging that Mohamed Taki Abdoulkarim , whom he had dismissed as head of government on July 4 [ see p. 38996 ; for his appointment in January 1992 see pp. 38706-07 ] , was behind the Sept. 26 coup attempt . |