Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had gathered plenty of heather and bracken for a warm bed ; she had made a fishing line from the hem of her dress , and caught some codling from the rocks to dry and smoke ; she had gathered mussels and cockles , and dried them by her fire . |
| 2 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 3 | As E. Welbourne showed in ‘ Bankruptcy Before the Era of Victorian Reform ’ , ‘ men in prison who had stripped themselves of all they had , could produce £2,500 in notes from under the bed . ’ |
| 4 | In the final hours of its life on Oct. 27 the 101st Congress passed an omnibus anti-crime package , but only after consultation between House and Senate representatives had stripped it of its most innovative and controversial measures . |
| 5 | The Department of Education and Science therefore took over the enlarged responsibilities of the Ministry created by Butler in 1944 , and Quintin Hogg ( who had divested himself of his peerage in the hope of succeeding Macmillan as Prime Minister ) became the first Secretary of State . |
| 6 | For four days , Looking Glass led the band lazily north , and Joseph noted : ‘ We had heard nothing of General Howard , or Gibbon , or Sturgis . |
| 7 | There were astonished interjections from Harbury who had heard nothing of this before , but Shildon went on to say that the accusation stemmed from the sale of the lease on the top part of the Fleet Street building a few years earlier . |
| 8 | And if she had heard nothing of the gossip about his private life before she accepted him , certain ladies he had discarded , both married and single , took care that she overheard quite a lot now . |
| 9 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 10 | All these messages had been sent forth , and she had received none of them , had continued to consider herself in charge , in control , the prime mover . |
| 11 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 12 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
| 13 | " Oh Christ she said , limp suddenly , as if that one contact had drained her of her vital energy , preparing her , weakening her , for what was to come . |
| 14 | His body ached mainly through lack of sleep , he told himself , reluctant to admit he was so unfit that a mile walk had drained him of energy . |
| 15 | Midge , who had cancelled none of her engagements , asked Patrick if he would accompany her in Stevie 's place . |
| 16 | If there was one thing sure about it , it was that Isambard had abated nothing of his purpose , and if he had halted his experiment in terrorisation short of the act , it was not from any impulse of pity , but the result of a calculated probability that these methods would not get him what he wanted . |
| 17 | In a vague way , I thought , he had reminded me of Derry Welfram . |
| 18 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 19 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 20 | Our Minister had reminded me of a sermon by a former St. Andrew 's minister , about ‘ A Garden City , ’ where there would be realisation of the twin idelas : service and society . |
| 21 | In the slow movement , he generally retired into his own thoughts , poetically outlining the melodic shapes with a lyrical softness , but then , suddenly , landing lumpily on a note , as if the reverie had reminded him of a reality . |
| 22 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 23 | He had told Fahfakhs that Tepilit had actually killed a lion for the film that Claudia was making with Leavitt , whose name I had reminded him of . |
| 24 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 25 | Quentin had said that for a moment Kate had reminded him of Miss Trimm , and for another moment Lavinia imagined that : Kate at eighty-two , passionately involved with God . |
| 26 | Something she had said that had reminded him of it ; something she had said about it ? |
| 27 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 28 | But as soon as he had reminded himself of his motive , it rang as hollow to him as he felt sure it must to others . |
| 29 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 30 | Scarlet was relieved , since Camille 's adolescent smile had reminded her of the expression on the face of some ancient , alien reptile . |