Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] [det] " 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 | Miss Thorne had taught them all the names of the different stage areas . |
| 3 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 6 | Was it perhaps he who had taught her all those words ? |
| 7 | Nannie had taught her that one , and she felt it was very true . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( Who had taught her these words ? |
| 10 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 14 | My doctor had arranged it all and I did n't want to do it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Emperor had humbugged them all , and the killing would begin . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She realised she was being too serious , a problem that had plagued her all her life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I had heard it all before and so was a little more sanguine . |
| 22 | Sure Mr. Bonanza had heard it all already , but any small thing might give him a lead to whoever shot poor , poor Jack . |
| 23 | She had heard it all before but he always seemed to forget he had told her . |
| 24 | I had heard it all before and could only think how differently she would be responding if Syl had been Nour . |
| 25 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 26 | I had heard it all before . |
| 27 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 28 | It was as if Ben had outgrown them all . |
| 29 | The break-in of the previous night had shaken them both , but Julie more so . |
| 30 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |