Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |
| 32 | After tea , Miandad began settling the score with Salisbury , the young legspinner who had dismissed him at Lord 's . |
| 33 | Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it . |
| 34 | In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction . |
| 35 | Madge Allsop had just crept in like a beige dormouse and deposited a salver of tea , though Dame Edna had dismissed her with a beady look when she attempted to sit in our chat . |
| 36 | He had dismissed her from his mind as he would swat away a troublesome fly . |
| 37 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 38 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 39 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 40 | Our relationship had formed itself by an aggregation of layers . |
| 41 | When she had protested to Lord Wardley , who was chief billeting officer for that part of Northumberland , he had referred her to a minion who , in turn , had taken great pleasure in pointing out that she could , if she preferred , have some evacuees from Gateshead but , either way , her spare room could not remain empty when everyone was required to make a war effort . |
| 42 | Her concerned employers had referred her to a doctor , who had put her on the contraceptive pill but , as was normal practice , she had not been examined or questioned . |
| 43 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 44 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |
| 45 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 46 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 47 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 48 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 49 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 50 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 51 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 52 | It kept her going , especially when she was angling for the notice of the one man who , after giving her dinner on the way back from Bovington , had treated her with only a lighthearted pleasant banter whenever they met . |
| 53 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 54 | If somehow she could have been given a meagre share in their relationship , if one or the other had treated her as a confidante , it might have been more bearable . |
| 55 | The funny man who had found her on a distant planet and had treated her as a human being . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | The reason was that the employer had taken no effective steps to end the practice and yet suddenly , and without proper warning , had treated it as a sufficient ground for dismissal . |
| 58 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 59 | Did Obispal 's associates realize that the rashly rampaging Inquisitor was only present in this auditorium courtesy of Jaq 's Assassin who had plucked him to safety ? |
| 60 | Sister Murphy had been the last nurse to be with Sister Edith Cavell , and King George V had honoured her by making her the first to receive a medal for bravery at one of his levees . |