Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She showed me the marks on the back of her knuckles and her wrist where that bitch had walloped her with a rod of some sort , right from the first day . ’ |
| 2 | The excitement of this first fall of rain had filled her with a desire that things should be different , that she should be happy again . |
| 3 | Her feelings on that day had been so overpowering , had filled her with such sharp pleasure that always she hoped that their ghosts must still be lingering among the leaves . |
| 4 | She 'd felt a warmth go through her , as though he 'd reached out and touched her , an imaginary touch that had filled her with excitement . |
| 5 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 6 | His mouth felt dry , as if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 7 | It was if someone had filled it with sand . |
| 8 | Miss Menzies had filled it with petrol on the Friday afternoon and used it on the Monday morning . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 16 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 17 | It was the first show of emotion she had made and it did more to make Wexford believe her story than all the documentary evidence she had furnished him with . |
| 18 | Corbett was worried as the silver Burnell had furnished him with was nearly gone . |
| 19 | It certainly would not be the sinister Treelike beings who had regarded him with such terrible vengeance in their unnatural faces ! |
| 20 | He was fluent , learned , a man of books , and yet , she had heard him with her father on small points , as sharp as a tinker … too many false trails , too many different scents … as if he , too , were puzzling over his path … |
| 21 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
| 22 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 23 | Her notebook was there , the piece of paper Cobalt had given her with Barbara Coleman 's Nice address was there , everything she could recall was there except the keys . |
| 24 | She had given it with affection , but would have been forced — by custom , by law , and by John-William 's iron will — to give it anyway . |
| 25 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 26 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |
| 27 | Was it because life itself is a battle and Hatton had waged it with unscrupulous weapons , winning rich spoils and falling as he marched home with a song on his lips ? |
| 28 | Yet he had pursued her with a single-minded intent that was unnerving . |
| 29 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 30 | Therese had been studying them as soon as the Direktor had telephoned her with the news of the productions and her roles . |