Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 2 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
| 3 | The idea was that the police would wait until they had incontrovertible evidence before moving in for the arrest , but Branson and Draper had barely sat down with the Clarkes before some forty policemen swarmed through the door , knocking over tables and chairs and arresting the two brothers . |
| 4 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 5 | By now it was dark , with just two small desk lamps throwing clear-cut areas of light : one at a typist 's table halfway down the room where Maxim had finally met up with a pint of cold lager , one at the desk where Dann was listening on the telephone and sipping a small glass of neat gin . |
| 6 | Slatter had probably slipped in with the crowd and been served by his wife while he was grabbing a swift meal in the kitchen . |
| 7 | By this time , Sinead had already linked up with Farrelly in Dublin |
| 8 | That impressionable child who had swooned and sighed and lain in bed dreaming of Jake MacKay had finally grown up with a vengeance . |
| 9 | Dotty had once gone out with a piece of string to stop its clanging . |
| 10 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 11 | Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them . |
| 12 | Norman Tebbit had also fallen out with Mrs Thatcher and left the government , while Leon Brittan , recently knighted , found a new niche at Brussels . |