Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after her ninetieth birthday she died at West Cross , Swansea , 13 December 1935 , leaving a personal fortune of £112,000 , almost exactly equalling the debt she had inherited from her father over forty years earlier . |
| 2 | At the big house I met the Officer who had been looking for me earlier on . |
| 3 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 4 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 5 | Mounce unlocked the flat which had been converted into a bar . |
| 6 | The Voice slipped the magnetic card into the slot of the public telephone , consulted the number he had been given by Taczek , and dialled . |
| 7 | His methods and his diligence were such that in less than six months he had completed the work which had been expected to take 2 to 3 years . |
| 8 | And she had dragged herself to her feet again and watched as the man called Duvall had sadistically begun to kill the boy who had protected her . |
| 9 | The Northern Regional Health Authority said it has received the report it had requested from Dr Lawler and had now asked South Tees Health Authority to investigate . |
| 10 | Shafts of sunlight gleamed through the avenue of trees , warming the air so that she felt no need to wear the jacket she had brought with her as a precaution against the temperamental nature of Danish weather , holding it casually instead over one arm , perfectly comfortable in the same linen dress she had worn the previous evening . |
| 11 | Osman had recovered from his put-down and seemed bent on recovering the ground he had lost . |
| 12 | Earlier we might have said his conduct and manner of speech were appropriate for one who wished to renounce the status he had stolen , and show his recognition of Esau 's authority as the elder son . |
| 13 | Before touching the body he had briefly crossed himself . |
| 14 | As we were leaving , we passed the Muslim who had lost the fight . |
| 15 | She shared the perplexity she had felt as a young officer when she first discovered that a certain number of votes were required to elect a General . |
| 16 | But they would n't let us in , if we wanted to go the match we had to pay . |
| 17 | ( 63 ) Two months ago , I should have scouted as mad or drunk the man who had dared tell me the like . |
| 18 | They pooled the information they had gleaned or guessed from their several interrogations , and then began in again . |
| 19 | Their under-officers fell out one by one and took station along the way to preserve the channel they had opened . |
| 20 | As he was never in contention , he will not have used up the sort of nervous energy expended by Chip Beck , who recovered the lead he had lost on Saturday to edge out Greg Norman and Mike Standly with a final round of 70 . |
| 21 | Dom Alfonso Pires da Silva stammered out his compliments and made the speech he had prepared about Dom João being unavoidably detained in Lisbon by pressing affairs of state . |
| 22 | The facts made the contempt he had felt for her , six years ago at any rate , even more understandable . |
| 23 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 24 | Sarah slipped back into using the name she had called her child at birth . |
| 25 | Mr Boyd had escaped to France after the ‘ 45 , had married a French wife , who now lived with him in Aberdeen , and he tried his best to cure the local people using the knowledge he had gained from some medical text-books he found in a house on the island of Arran while on the run . |
| 26 | Using the work he had done on the influence of a trauma , on a child under five years of age , and its effects on the later genesis of neurosis , Freud analysed religions as consisting of positive and negative reactions to a trauma which has been forgotten . |
| 27 | ‘ Tong Chou , ’ he said , using the pseudonym he had used in the Plantation that time ; knowing that if they checked the records they would find an entry there under that name and a face to match his face . |
| 28 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 29 | The hammer continues upwards , using the energy it had initially acquired , until it hits the string . |
| 30 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |