Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head .
2 He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work .
3 After all , Owen had proposed something of the sort a century before .
4 A sheet of rain had come down then , a hard , gusty shower , while they were laying the squares of turf back in place , and Adam had said something about the rain making the grass grow quickly , the rain being on their side .
5 As work began in earnest on the book , I realised that Roderick had lost none of the skills that I , as his research student twenty years before , had regarded with awe .
6 Miss Scrimgeour had received one at the same time .
7 God had to do something on the cross , in Christ , in order that his love which he has for us as sinners might become forgiveness for us in reality .
8 The prolonged wars with France had geared everything towards the production of material for the army and navy , and that was no longer required .
9 Perkin had made none of the classic mistakes .
10 It was years since he had read it but he thought Jung had said something about the universal need for secret societies .
11 ‘ He found out next day that Molassi had knifed somebody in the confusion .
12 On 11 August , on being informed of this , the chief constable , Mr. Geoffrey Dear , suspended the officers Woodley and Clifford and ordered an inquiry to be supervised by the P.C.A. On 9 February 1990 it was announced by the deputy chief constable that the investigation had produced no evidence that the officers Woodley and Clifford had removed anything from the court file .
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