Example sentences of "had [vb pp] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw how the dark room had filled with transparent figures who marched along the walls singing and mocking , who wrapped themselves around her so that she was suffocated in their embrace , then turned to broken bricks and choking mortar dust which cascaded in torrents on to her , flattening her to the bed so that her limbs ached with pain and she could n't move . |
| 2 | As a senior member of the banking committee in the late 1980s , he had intervened with federal regulators on behalf of Charles H. Keating , while soliciting about $1,000,000 in political contributions from Keating 's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association [ see pp. 37848 ; 37998 ; 38223 ] . |
| 3 | Over the same period seven other cases of colonic cancer were found in association with ulcerative colitis , two in patients who had erroneously been diagnosed as having only proctitis and were therefore not entered into the programme , but were found at operation to have total colitis , one in a patient with colitis of seven years duration , and four patients who had previously attended the clinic but had been lost to follow up before 1978 and then had re-presented with new symptoms during the surveillance period . |
| 4 | This decision was plainly absurd : all confidentiality in the information had evaporated with overseas publication , and no additional damage to the national interest could possibly have been done by re-publication of the contents of the book in the British press . |
| 5 | had conspired with certain other young persons to produce a magazine that would corrupt the morals of young children and other young persons and had intended to arouse and implant in the minds of these young people lustful and perverted desires . |
| 6 | He had registered with warm approval the tears of Antiochus III , when the rebel Achaeus was brought to him " bound hand and foot " ( 8.20.9 ) . |
| 7 | Bill , who had heard with great pleasure many of the greats including Menuhin , Beecham , Barbirolli during his Newcastle days , went . |
| 8 | She had examined with analytical precision her empty and disgusting marriage with an impotent old man , and her candid delight at the death that had put an end to it . |
| 9 | Where was all that charm he had lathered with sickening profuseness on Simone ? |
| 10 | Warner had added with casual precision which would have made the Gestapo rage in frustration if they had intercepted it : ‘ The bomb landed at deep mid-on , bowling from the Nursery end . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Mackie , who now lives in Inverurie , said he had dabbled with soft drugs as a teenager in London and had been introduced to them again by Murray and his brother , David Murray , when he went to work at Kenway . |
| 12 | Above all , leaving the house up on its pier blocks which , a year before , Bob Shephard had supplemented with bell-shaped concrete piers filled with revar and crowned with metal ties holding the house down . |
| 13 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 14 | There were days when my husband and my son , too , had sat with Zayed . |
| 15 | She had counter-attacked with bright lampshades and curtains , but she had n't won . |
| 16 | Before she left , the Princess Royal became the first signatory to the new Napier University Visitors Book and on her departure , one of Napier 's youngest ‘ students ’ , four-year-old Kirsty Hutton who had come with other children from Napier 's crèche to wave goodbye to the Princess , presented her with a posy . |
| 17 | Was it not true , though , that the Liberal Democrats had voted with Labour in five out of every six divisions in the last Parliament ? |
| 18 | The phone in the cellar had rung with bad news . |
| 19 | The SPM had amalgamated with other groups of the Darod clan under the umbrella title of the Somali National Front ( SNF ) . |
| 20 | Similarly Labour 's minister of defence , Denis Healey , an early exponent of Britain 's continuing police-keeping presence East of Suez , had reported with apparent satisfaction to the cabinet on 11 December 1964 ( after a visit to Washington ) that the Americans wanted Britain to keep footholds — not huge bases — in Hong Kong , Malaya and the Persian Gulf . |
| 21 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 22 | The boy said it had began with affectionate cuddling but escalated into sexual acts . |
| 23 | Attempts in January 1991 to rush through the privatization of the banking sector had met with legal objections [ see pp. 38007 ] , but two public-sector banks had been privatized , in January and August . |
| 24 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 25 | The offer was relayed by the Japanese embassy in Yangon ( Rangoon ) after a member of Japan 's governing Liberal Democratic Party had met with Prime Minister and SLORC Chair Gen. Saw Maung on Sept. 6 . |
| 26 | Leading separatists had met with Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar in Delhi on April 17 and 19 ; on April 20 it was announced that a large number of Sikh youths imprisoned for minor offences would be released . |
| 27 | The turnpike from Salisbury towards Romsey was the best and earned high praise for the trustees , whose management he judged responsible , for he had met with other roads whose materials were as fine but " never with any that were so firmly united , and kept so totally free from loose stones , ruts and water " . |
| 28 | However , a few had met with negative attitudes in the process . |
| 29 | Workers would probably have been less inclined to support them if their protests had met with reasoned discussion rather than tear gas . |
| 30 | The other parties had met with mixed success and it was obvious that the enemy were mounting far stronger guards on their airfields . |