Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave a little laugh and tightened the hand he had placed on her arm — Sally-Anne had not offered to take his ; that was not a servant 's right . |
| 2 | She was still striving to get herself back together when , to her astonishment , ignoring the file she had placed on his desk , ‘ Vanity being what it is , ’ he commented , ‘ I thought contact lenses were all the go now ? ’ |
| 3 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 4 | She gazed at the new arrangement , absent-mindedly reached for the tea Julia had placed near her elbow and drank . |
| 5 | With a twitch of its jaws it had ripped into his hide leggings . |
| 6 | The blast — triggered when Alan lit his gas oven — had ripped off his clothes . |
| 7 | and the kid had withdrawn into his yellow gaze |
| 8 | He would have liked to know who that ‘ client of Harvey Gough & partners ’ had been-Amold Tatham himself , perhaps , using the pension contributions he had withdrawn on his resignation . |
| 9 | He thought of the cabin up the creek to which his sister had withdrawn at his urging , and he turned to find the track , willing himself to control his horror , to keep moving nimbly and stealthily as if he did not feel unstrung . |
| 10 | On June 8 , 18 political organizations including the OLF had unsuccessfully petitioned the electoral commission for a postponement until irregularities and " discriminatory activities " had been resolved and all armed forces had withdrawn to their camps as agreed [ see pp. 38660 ; 38855 ] . |
| 11 | Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms . |
| 12 | He had withdrawn behind his shield of mysterious self-possession . |
| 13 | The PDCS had withdrawn from their alliance with the Progressive Democratic Party ( PDP — until March 1990 the Communist Party — PCS ) on Feb. 24 , declaring that it regarded the coalition , which had been in office since 1986 , as outmoded . |
| 14 | They also report that only 13.5%of women but 28%of men had withdrawn from their course . |
| 15 | When the Dutch troops landed and passed through Wells , Ken wrote to James to say that he had withdrawn from his palace , taking his carriage horses lest they be commandeered ; indeed his previous service at William 's court would have caused much embarrassment if he had remained to meet him . |
| 16 | The nominee of the more reformist social democratic faction , Georgi Pirinski , not only lost the leadership to Videnov ( who received 428 votes out of 608 on the second round after Lilov had withdrawn in his favour ) but failed to gain a seat on the supreme council , as did former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov . |
| 17 | She lay relaxed and dizzy on the bed , with the lingering sense of floating on top of the depths she had plumbed in her sleep . |
| 18 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 19 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 20 | This was a quite remarkable transformation in a man who only two years before had talked of dying : neither fame nor literary achievement had brought him any contentment , and in the end it was human love , the love that he had dismissed in his writings as the consolation only of ordinary men , that rescued him from a lifetime of misery and isolation . |
| 21 | It was this , more than the death , more than the coldness of his father 's cheek , that broke the ice that had formed about his feelings . |
| 22 | The voice which Lewis had earlier thought well under control now wavered slightly , and with her handkerchief she quickly wiped away the light film of sweat that had formed on her upper lip . |
| 23 | The senators smile faded and he leaned over the rail to let the ash that had formed on his cigar fall into the muddy river . |
| 24 | A smile had formed on his lips , and it seemed to Jessica to be a rueful one . |
| 25 | Taking the middle of the handkerchief , Vic drew it up through a hole he had formed with his other hand . |
| 26 | Another veteran communist politician , Santiago Carrillo , secretary-general of the PCE from 1960 to 1982 , effectively retired when on Feb. 15 , 1991 , he signed an agreement providing for the integration into the PSOE of the small Partido de los Trabajadores de España ( Spanish Workers ' Party — PTE ) , which he had formed after his expulsion from the PCE leadership in 1985 [ see pp. 34183-84 ; 35527 ] . |
| 27 | The clerk could scarcely control his excitement , the dull image which had formed in his mind was beginning to take flesh . |
| 28 | Denning had referred in his report to their speeches in the House on 21 March 1963 and had commented that their remarks clearly imputed that Profumo had been responsible for the disappearance of Christine Keeler . |
| 29 | The operation to which Eliot had referred in his thank-you letter of 22 December was one for hernia , a trouble with which he had been afflicted from birth ( in fact he had a double hernia ) , and for which he was obliged to wear a truss . |
| 30 | The South 's initial response was to question the sincerity of Kim 's initiative and to dispute the existence of the " concrete wall " to which Kim had referred in his speech as " the symbol of national division " . |