Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Salome had placed it all perfectly in context , and by doing so had made Erich an unwitting ally to the theme . |
| 2 | Eliot 's renunciation of primitivism and sexuality recalls this phrasing while pulling away from the world which had fascinated him earlier ; he sees from the fertile ‘ slotted window bellied like the fig 's fruit ’ how |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Miss Thorne had taught them all the names of the different stage areas . |
| 5 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew . |
| 9 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 10 | Was it perhaps he who had taught her all those words ? |
| 11 | Nannie had taught her that one , and she felt it was very true . |
| 12 | Erm but the most unfortunate thing that Old Edward the the old chap who owned the place he was living in part of the house and Old Jane , his housekeeper , my mother she could bake bread and wash , her mother had taught her that , but it was making butter that was the problem . |
| 13 | She was reported as saying that the trial had taught her one important lesson as a barrister — how the victim feels — and called for changes in the law which would give greater protection to victims . |
| 14 | ( Who had taught her these words ? |
| 15 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 16 | Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery . |
| 17 | He had foreseen it all , sixteen years ago , on that dreadful evening when his darling wife Lin Yua had died giving birth to his second son , Li Yuan . |
| 18 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 19 | My doctor had arranged it all and I did n't want to do it . |
| 20 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 21 | In the last week he had consulted it thirty or forty times : |
| 22 | The Emperor had humbugged them all , and the killing would begin . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 27 | Tom , when he woke later had insisted that they should absorb some culture , had chivvied them both into his car and driven them first to the Villa Lante . |
| 28 | She realised she was being too serious , a problem that had plagued her all her life . |
| 29 | Peggy was aware that many of her sayings were threadbare , she had heard them many times before , but as the comedian said , it was n't what as said , it was the way it was told . |
| 30 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |