Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [indef pn] [prep] " 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 | By Friday she had arranged everything to Rob 's satisfaction , although as she handed Luke his notes for the meeting in York she still had some reservations about his reaction to his brother 's methods of expressing gratitude . |
| 3 | After the Blefuscans had arranged everything with the Lilliputian officials , they came to visit me . |
| 4 | Really , I had heard something about him being involved in some ‘ group ’ . |
| 5 | I had heard something about it once or seen it on a map , but I could remember nothing definite . |
| 6 | Floy said , very carefully , ‘ Could you show us the route ? ’ and Fenella looked up , as if , thought Caspar , she had heard something in Floy 's voice that the rest of them had not heard . |
| 7 | For four days , Looking Glass led the band lazily north , and Joseph noted : ‘ We had heard nothing of General Howard , or Gibbon , or Sturgis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had heard nothing of this . |
| 11 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 12 | It is intriguing to speculate , as you stand in a swamp listening to this astounding and deafening chorus , that , although much must have changed in the millions of years since the first amphibians appeared , it was , nonetheless , an amphibian voice that first sounded over the land which , until then , had heard nothing but the chirps and whirrs of insects . |
| 13 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 14 | She had heard nothing on the radio . |
| 15 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 16 | Taking the first fortnight as a whole , four-fifths of voters had heard nothing about their local Conservative , Labour , and Alliance candidates but that figure dropped to little more than half in the second fortnight . |
| 17 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 18 | During the shelling and mortaring I had heard nothing from Sid 's trench . |
| 19 | When , by Thursday , Helen had heard nothing from Giles the words that rang in her head began to turn from music to mockery . |
| 20 | After the first report he had heard nothing from the boy . |
| 21 | Seven weeks and five days since that cataclysmic day when Svend had interrupted their lovemaking , and she had heard nothing from him . |
| 22 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
| 23 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 24 | Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time . |
| 25 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He felt very weak , however , and every so often he retched convulsively , though without vomiting for he had consumed nothing except a little water in the past twenty-four hours . |
| 28 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 29 | Midge , who had cancelled none of her engagements , asked Patrick if he would accompany her in Stevie 's place . |
| 30 | She blushed at the thought that she had half considered it , that the pressure on her hand and admiration had added something to her pleasure , that it had made her feel successful . |