Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [pron] had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cursed herself for stating the obvious , wished she had taken more note of where they had brought her . |
| 2 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 3 | She showed immediate enthusiasm and , well , one thing led to another and before long I had invited her and her family to come over to Tintagel to meet Dawn and see her fly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ What a disgusting thing to do , ’ she said aloud , as she walked through the silent house , picking up two items of Nick 's clothing from where he had flung them almost into the utility room . |
| 6 | Retrieving his hat from where he had left it , he hurried out . |
| 7 | He bathed and dressed in his evening silks , then settled in the chair beside the carp pond , picking up the Hung Lou Meng , the Dream of Red Mansions , from where he had discarded it earlier . |
| 8 | Besides , her arms were still on fire from where he had lifted her and her nipples still burned from that brief contact with his chest . |
| 9 | Elisabeth took her bicycle from where she had lent it against the garden fence . |
| 10 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 11 | Then she stood up , turned to the sink again and picked up the rust-coloured casserole dish from where she had left it . |
| 12 | There he positioned himself , trying to glimpse Dame Elizabeth 's chamber from where she had alleged she had seen the horsemen waiting in the trees . |
| 13 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 14 | Sunday had been wonderful , a lovely warm , lazy day , but since then he had treated her as just another member of the team , being quite natural and friendly and polite , but without any hint of intimacy . |
| 15 | Up to this point we had kept up with the other parties , but while they had tackled the step easily , we were left puzzled as to how they had done it . |
| 16 | Whilst recalling his early hardships Chaplin also provided a clue as to how he had overcome them for he spoke of how he had ‘ slaved like a nigger to master the difficult steps that formed the routine of the eight Lancashire lads ’ . |
| 17 | He put the candle-holder down on it , then turned towards her , and before she could stop him he gave her a kiss so gentle that it hardly registered , and she stared at him , wide-eyed , put her hand to where he had saluted her , and said huskily , ‘ No , ’ although what she meant by that neither he nor she knew . |
| 18 | Remembering that her car was still abandoned at Central Station , she took a taxi to where she had left it , and was relieved to find it still waiting there . |
| 19 | We watched you come home , we saw you go into the house and I was all for going right in after you and confronting Imogen , telling you the truth , because I had learned all about how she had dragged you from place to place , from house to house . |
| 20 | That he thought ; sugared cakes , a block of cheese , would be all the more exquisite ; fitting — for how she had treated him . |
| 21 | I blamed her and the fact she was a Jew for how she had used us all . |
| 22 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 23 | Maxine confessed that there had been times when she had thought she might be going mad , so great was her horror of water . |
| 24 | There had been times when she had thought she would never be able to put herself back together . |
| 25 | Now that he knew where he was the details of the room became familiar , and he knew at once what had wakened him , and strained his ears to hear it again . |
| 26 | At least they had told me of their bad luck already or I might have succumbed to the old tales of women on ships and the bad omens they can bring . |
| 27 | ‘ At least he had to hit me , you just fell over . ’ |
| 28 | One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in . |
| 29 | But at least he had released her from that disturbing contact with his wide , strong chest and firm encircling arms , and the physical contact between them had brought one thing home to her very clearly — such a thing must definitely not happen again , or these next months would be utterly impossible . |
| 30 | Although that session had not given any indication of why her water phobia had begun , at least it had shown her that there was a time before it existed . |