Example sentences of "had [vb pp] with some " in BNC.

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1 Shirley had clattered noisily on the linoleum , had huffed and puffed and banged about , and finally had said with some passion , ‘ You 're barmy . ’
2 I had acted with some courage and endurance — and even intelligence , I hope — in a situation many men would have found hopeless .
3 He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous .
4 Her ball gown was an old grey dress which she had prettified with some lengths of Brussels lace .
5 She came in bubbling with excitement ; all evening she had brimmed with some secret mirth .
6 2 June Beijing University postgraduate student Chai Qing Feng dies as a result of wounds received during a ‘ brawl ’ at a snack bar near to campus where he had gone with some friends to buy drinks .
7 She learnt that Gamal had gone with some friends to an island off the coast of Florida , so she told the person who answered the telephone to get hold of him immediately at any cost and tell him to call his mother on a matter of the greatest urgency .
8 During the call she discovered that Gamal had gone with some of his friends to an island on the coast of Florida .
9 He had danced with some of the other girls but not with her .
10 In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve .
11 She had dressed with some care .
12 The Alsatians , their thick pelts soaked and steaming , had sniffed with some certainty around a little icon of the Virgin which stood by the roadside , sheltered from the rain by a stone arch , but after that they had rambled unhappily this way and that and returned whining to their handlers , who were knee-deep in mud , soaked to the skin and cursing roundly .
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