Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found she had torn most of the mourning band away from her sleeve and there was nothing for it but to pull it off entirely . |
| 2 | Roland had supposed she had expected this , but it became dreadfully obvious that she had not . |
| 3 | I did n't know they had blocked that from you . |
| 4 | She felt a sensation of floating , since the poison which had claimed her had blocked all physical feeling , and she could not move her head to see the men who were carrying her . |
| 5 | He had fulfilled , he had discharged his mission , he had preached the gospel he had seen men and women coming to Jesus Christ , he had seen the mi mi miracles happening he had baptized those who have put faith in Jesus , and now , you see , it 's not a one man show , there was , there was a leadersh , there was a team involved here . |
| 6 | Jane Pargeter walked self-consciously to the kitchen to make herself a cup of tea : she had obviously decided she had drunk enough gin for the afternoon . |
| 7 | In 1937 , she had felt she had had enough of the pernicious course of human history . |
| 8 | Corbett noted she had lost some of her arrogance and was more watchful . |
| 9 | Each person was given a blanket , but no food ; I suspect the soldiers assumed we had brought some with us . |
| 10 | At last , Swan must have decided they had done enough teasing . |
| 11 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |
| 12 | Although self educated he had written many books and papers on science , philosophy and religion . |
| 13 | It seemed he had lost all interest in that too . |
| 14 | She had never seen her mother 's withered leg ; indeed , imagining it had fuelled some of the worst nightmares of her childhood , worse even than Afghanistan which was at least safely half a world anyway , not just down a corridor , released from its sheath of leather and metal , grotesque and awful . |
| 15 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 16 | He 'd think you had invented this to discredit your enemies . ’ |
| 17 | Heather hit the headlines last week when we revealed she had dumped several pairs of her husband 's old socks , only to learn later he had hidden £500 in the sole of one . |
| 18 | Suddenly she realized she had loved these last few months . |
| 19 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 20 | Nurses claimed she had waited most of that time for an ambulance to take her to another hospital . |
| 21 | It was only two days ago that she had decided to come and now , as she stood there in the spring sunshine , she could hardly believe she had allowed this to happen . |
| 22 | And would Feargal now believe she had engineered this ? |
| 23 | When she first lost her eye , she had had trouble keeping her balance , but she had thought she had overcome that . |
| 24 | By the end of the year they reckoned they had released some 432 men , 180 wives , and 1,341 children . |
| 25 | The Department of Employment confirms it had cleared several of its own offices for the purpose , and lined up contractors to refurbish them . |
| 26 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 27 | She had thought he had had enough of all that rural tranquillity , and had wanted to live somewhere lively and sophisticated . |
| 28 | Or did he really make you believe he had developed some sudden , overwhelming passion for you ? ’ |
| 29 | He had heard the commotion and roused himself from his noonday nap to come and see what had caused such an uproar . |
| 30 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |