Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [noun] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had dropped my bag as I hit the first man , but that did n't matter . |
| 2 | She had caught his eye as she came down the aisle . |
| 3 | In the end she had subdued her body as she disciplined her emotions . |
| 4 | They had accepted her situation as it was without these sensitive doubts . |
| 5 | She sometimes thought it had saved her life as it had undoubtedly saved Camille 's . |
| 6 | Her hair , glowing like a brazier through the early-morning mist , her high boots and her cream-coloured quilted jacket with its exaggerated shoulders , had drawn his gaze as he sat impatiently in a line of cars while the pickets argued with the driver of an articulated wagon that was trying to enter the University . |
| 7 | The plot was working and the characters had played their parts as she intended . |
| 8 | Trotter had raised her voice as she always did speaking to the old man . |
| 9 | The car driver had sounded his horn as he screeched to a halt . |
| 10 | They had resumed their walk as they talked , and now they had reached the village . |
| 11 | And now Jimmy had taken her hand as she hauled him back from the desk and … |
| 12 | She was beside him and she had taken his arm as they waited on the pavement across the road . |
| 13 | It had been his only possession when he had fled his home as it burned . |
| 14 | He said they had gone up the Rest and Be Thankful and he had noticed a red van parked in a lay-by which had flashed its lights as they passed . |
| 15 | ‘ Margaret , ’ called my mother , and ‘ Margaret ’ again , her voice taking on the faint exasperation that had flavoured her tone as she used my name for many years now . |
| 16 | He had failed his race as he had failed his family . |