Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] with a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That impressionable child who had swooned and sighed and lain in bed dreaming of Jake MacKay had finally grown up with a vengeance . |
| 4 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 5 | Dotty had once gone out with a piece of string to stop its clanging . |
| 6 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 7 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |