Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way , I was thinking , Gharr had done me a favour . |
| 2 | Just before he left , Creed had given him the date . |
| 3 | Dennis had given us a rough time in the previous two Tests and so I started to chat to him to get him in a favourable mood for when it was our turn to bat . |
| 4 | For the first time Robbie found herself wishing her brothers had given her a less striking gift . |
| 5 | Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs , and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew — unlike Haig and Joffre — very well what wounded men looked like . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 8 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 9 | Similarly , a former CIA agent had given him a detailed , off-the-record account of the agency 's involvement with arms and narcotics trafficking in the Middle East . |
| 10 | Somehow that reference to Bruges had thrown her a little . |
| 11 | At the start of the decade the 2-Tone bands were keeping everybody up to scratch about racism , and by the end of it a member of Duran Duran had bought himself a house in South Africa . |
| 12 | The year before , Ruari had built himself a wee turf hut among the skeps on the moor to keep an eye on them , but Mairi complained about having to bring his food so far , and he 'd given up using it . |
| 13 | A north-west gale had given us a good shaking up crossing from Peterhead to Wick resulting in a cracked cylinder head . |
| 14 | Commerce graduate Terry Blamey had won himself a reputation as one of Australia 's brightest entertainment entrepreneurs with his company Pace Entertainment . |
| 15 | ( They were eventually to get another dog — a very lively golden retriever , but before that Warnie had bought himself a boat . ) |
| 16 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 17 | Gary could remember with utter clarity the first time that some other kids had called him a Spade . |
| 18 | Eleanor had given him the opportunity he had needed . |
| 19 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fortunately Pat had lent me a few things so at least I was clean . |
| 22 | By turning record-packers into talent scouts , magazine salesmen into managers , Branson had paid them the compliment of saying ‘ I trust you ’ . |
| 23 | Tension had given her a dull , thumping headache so that she absorbed nothing except the first entry on the list . |
| 24 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 25 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 26 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 27 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 28 | Andy had given us a special ticket which was non-transferable , so we sat in the departure lounge disconsolately watching half-empty flights leaving for Heathrow . |
| 29 | His years in the ring had left him the legacy of being quick on his feet , and he caught Larsen some twenty yards short of the door . |
| 30 | For a final moment the inflamed bruise on his left calf where the scorpion had stung him a week before seemed to blaze with new agonizing fire . |