Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then , instead of hiding until the passage was clear , fitzAlan had given her a shove and told her to wait in the last cubicle . |
| 2 | He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love . |
| 3 | Liza had given me a gin and tonic and when Granny turned up it was quite clear that she disapproved . |
| 4 | A Corporal had given me a coathanger and a broom and showed me the Foreign Legion 's way of unblocking a difficult lavatory bowl ; it involved unbending the coathanger , jamming it down the U-bend , and working it vigorously backwards and forwards . |
| 5 | After Mr Brocklehurst had given me the book and left , I felt I had to speak . |
| 6 | The Earl of Northumberland had given him a coach and four horses , ‘ a gift greater than I was beholding for to any subject ’ . |
| 7 | He became so bored by family life ( Tamara had given him a daughter and Yolande a son and a daughter ) that he lost interest in his children . |
| 8 | A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room . |
| 9 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
| 10 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
| 11 | Those in the agricultural contracting business who had attended said that ATB courses had given them the confidence and skill to undertake these jobs . |
| 12 | At this first meeting I expressed appreciation at their continuing confidence in me ; undertook to mediate ( this time unpaid ) ; and also to involve the services of John Montgomerie , whose clear-headed , quiet wisdom had earned him the respect and confidence of everyone he had dealt with . |
| 13 | She had seen it every night and morning for at least 15 of their 18 years of marriage . |
| 14 | Coleridge even felt some confidence that his writing could sustain them both in their new life : Cottle , in a further act of generosity , had offered him a guinea and a half for every one hundred lines of poetry he produced , and faithfully honoured the bargain in April of the following year when he published Poems on Various Subjects , Coleridge 's first major collection . |
| 15 | Dod had got me the job and we were using his van , so everything was okay by me . |
| 16 | Especially the ‘ ancient ’ family who had sold her the house and now , pathologically , could not forgive her for buying it , since they had lost caste by moving away — unfortunately for Jane , only a mile away . |
| 17 | Equally , when Bishop Æthelstan of Hereford was involved in litigation over an estate in Cnut 's time , it was ordered ( S 1460 ) that the boundaries be retraced , and this the bishop did together with the man who had sold him the land and the witnesses . |
| 18 | On the last morning of his captivity , on 27 November , his guards had shown him a newspaper and in particular a photograph on one of the pages . |
| 19 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 20 | Berserk with rage , he had called her a slut and worse and demanded the name of the father . |
| 21 | He was just Margaret 's old chum who had loaned me a shoulder and was still metaphorically holding my hand . |
| 22 | He said someone had brought him a chair and he had begun to come round and had felt fine . |
| 23 | He was obliged to return to earth , however , by signs of excitement at the ramparts , which doubtless heralded another attack … and by the Padre who had asked him a question and was waiting with signs of impatience for his reply . |
| 24 | He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg . |
| 25 | They had followed it every morning and would continue to follow it until their sentences were up . |
| 26 | After the butler had served him a whisky and her a lemonade , Thomas came to sit beside her . |
| 27 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |