Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had moved from his shoulder , so he got up and retrieved my hat . |
| 2 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 3 | Recalling what I had glimpsed of his relationships with both Henry Clerval and Elizabeth , it occurred to me that this conflict probably characterized all his friendships . |
| 4 | Mr. Reilly remarked of Mr William Paul , a leading member of the society , that he ‘ exceeded anyone I had known in his spirit and power in prayer ; and oh , how rich and copious were his quotations from scripture and our hymns ’ . |
| 5 | It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle . |
| 6 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 7 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 8 | The car 's owner , Salford University student Michael Afilaka , said a friend leaving the flats had told him someone had jumped on his A-registered vehicle . |
| 9 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 10 | Wendell stared down at the glass of brandy which someone had put into his hands . |
| 11 | He was pleased nobody had asked for his passport . |
| 12 | After Mortimer 's condemnation Edward granted pardon and restitution to the families which had suffered at his hands in 1329 and 1330 . |
| 13 | As he did so , the large puddle of perspiration which had accumulated around his body on the rubber sheet of the bed , slopped on to the floor . |
| 14 | Keller was made a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta in 1976 , a time when the proliferation of new six-lane , still-water courses around the world , which had emerged under his guidance , seemed a threat to the regatta founded in 1829 . |
| 15 | Fred Hanna remarked on the supermarket sales of children 's annuals in Dublin every Christmas , which had cut into his shop 's market — although it countered by emphasising a broader range of children 's books instead . |
| 16 | The clerk could scarcely control his excitement , the dull image which had formed in his mind was beginning to take flesh . |
| 17 | At this period he added two memoirs on Fife to the extensive list of books , memoirs and papers which had flowed from his pen . |
| 18 | As Rune laughed at her discomfort she was filled with a sudden urge to fling herself at him : wipe the laughter from his face , annihilate the sudden disarming dimples which had appeared beneath his lean cheeks , seal his mouth so that the corners could n't turn so distractingly upwards at her expense . |
| 19 | It was the day after Ludens 's visit to Chelsea which had ended with his witnessing Franca 's tears . |
| 20 | Memories of Cheddar , of Wookey perhaps , echoed through the ‘ caverns measureless to man ’ , and the Culbone landscape which had inspired in his latest writing in Osorio now glowed with the imaginative intensity of his opium vision . |
| 21 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 22 | When he was asked by the BBC in November to broadcast a " personal anthology " of poems , he chose those , he said , which had remained in his memory for reasons which were mysterious to him : John Dryden 's " To the Memory of Mr Oldham , Samuel Johnson 's " On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet " , Rudyard Kipling 's " Danny Deever " , Edgar Allan Poe 's " For Annie " and the six lines from Shelley which begin " Art thou pale for weariness . |
| 23 | Here he directly develops the interest which he and his friends in the discussion group had , and which had led to his starting work on the Essay : the relation and interplay between knowledge and reason on the one hand , and faith , belief , and revelation on the other . |
| 24 | He reflected on the options which had been open to him , one of which had led to his downfall . |
| 25 | This outlined the basis of Leese 's claim that the Jews were guilty of ritual murder , which had led to his being charged with seditious libel in 1936 . |
| 26 | Under her direction , and with Virgin money , Sting had recorded a series of demos which had led to his association with the Police , a recording contract with A&M and , ultimately , the hit parade . |
| 27 | At the same time , having failed to take Madrid , Franco needed a victory elsewhere to revitalize and reassert the military prowess which had led to his election as supreme military and political leader . |
| 28 | Yet William was made well-aware that the crisis in England which had led to his invitation had been brought about mainly by the opposition of the Anglican interest , something he implicitly recognised in his invasion propaganda . |
| 29 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 30 | No doubt this seemed to be the natural course for him , since in that retreat he would complete the process which had begun with his conversion almost thirty years before . |