Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 2 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 3 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 4 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 5 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 6 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 7 | You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light . |
| 8 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 9 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 10 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 11 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 12 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 13 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 14 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 15 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 16 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 17 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 18 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 19 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 20 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 21 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 22 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 23 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |
| 24 | He had received it in the post almost a week ago , and the moment he read it his heart had frozen — he had actually felt himself go ice-cold . |
| 25 | She had n't expected to be greeted with open arms , but the reception she 'd actually received had shaken her to the core . |
| 26 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 27 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 28 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
| 29 | Few were tempted by credit cards , debit cards , store cards or account cards to overstretch themselves , but ‘ in several moments of madness ’ Allison Battye was able to do so at Harrods , the House of Fraser store in Knightsbridge , to the tune of £2,300 on a card which Harrods had given her on the strength of her claiming on the application form that she was in employment , which was not true . |
| 30 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |