Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun] and [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 2 | By 1065 he had conquered Toledo and made it a Christian — Moorish fief owing allegiance to Leon . |
| 3 | This had annoyed Jonquil and set her steel earring swinging with temper . |
| 4 | Mary 's ordeal included a 4am raid on her home by Scotland Yard and social workers convinced she had kidnapped Alex and smuggled him into England from Cyprus . |
| 5 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |
| 6 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 7 | When the rats came , Buckthorn and Silver had obeyed Bigwig and stood their ground . |
| 8 | Sir Hugh Casson had helped Charles and encouraged him with his painting for many years , and is impressed by his skill . |
| 9 | This was taken direct to Queen Yolande who had summoned Alexander and told him to take the King 's favourite horse , a white mare stabled at Kinghorn , down to the ferry . |
| 10 | By the time he had divorced Donna and married his third wife , Jo Dalton , in January 1990 ( his first marriage to Annette Robertson ended in 1964 ) , the fifty-year-old star had stopped drinking . |
| 11 | If ICI and GEC had capitalised goodwill and amortised it against profit ( as ED 47 proposes , in line with US practice ) , then the differences between HC and CPP results would have been even larger than they are . |
| 12 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 13 | She had left work and spent her time preparing for her baby , and reading and re-reading John 's letters . |
| 14 | At least everyone there seemed very nice , they had welcomed Lizzy and made her feel secure and wanted . |
| 15 | He wondered whether the sad white victim was still lying in the sodden grass by the lake , or whether someone had taken pity and buried it . |
| 16 | Fenella looked at Floy and remembered about the Robemaker and the way he had captured Nuadu and rendered them all helpless , and about the exiled Court and the sidh and the Tree Spirits that Miach had almost awoken , and which might turn out not to be friends , but enemies . |