Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw how every little niggling thing old Andy had given him to do counted — how one developed his muscle , another his eye , a third his judgement of time and distance ; how each hour he spent working with the foremast hands taught him to know and understand them better against the day when such men as they were would look to him for guidance . |
| 2 | Old Jack had won it ! |
| 3 | When I returned , Jan looked at me knowingly , as if darling Basil had told her about my embarrassing hump , third leg and cocaine habit . |
| 4 | The skirt and top Rohan had given her only added to her inner confusion . |
| 5 | Could she come to terms with the fact that Medoc , the evil , cruel Lord of the Dark Ireland had sired her and Fergus ? |
| 6 | From the little Patrick had told her , and from what she already knew of the woman , she knew Madam Lundy was quite capable of having them killed as a lesson . |
| 7 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 8 | While he was out of sight of the gate I walked up the drive , opened the front door with the key Karen had given me , and ran upstairs . |
| 9 | Anna was growing tall , and her black hair was so unruly Peg had plaited it to keep it away from her pale face . |
| 10 | ‘ Poor Sammy had to hear it , he just had to . |
| 11 | The tone of the letter , the way it spoke of Lori ; I was sure Luke had written it . ’ |
| 12 | I was sure Otto had put them there for me . |
| 13 | Ironically , 25-year-old Josephine had made it as a TV star when Craig was a pipe layer dreaming of fame . |
| 14 | So the debonair Simon had made it big in the financial world . |
| 15 | Great-Aunt Alicia had redecorated it for her , many years ago . |
| 16 | But Crosby said yesterday 18-year-old Gray had encouraged him to put away his cheque book . |
| 17 | Ah was only makin' certain Rodriguez had got it right . |
| 18 | For though it was true Maurice had brought it upon himself , he had also brought it upon her . |
| 19 | When the surgeon had departed , Morse turned with unwarranted ferocity upon his ill-used sergeant : ‘ You told me , Lewis , that Mr Eddie bloody Stratton had been missing in quite extraordinarily suspicious circumstances since early afternoon , and that a frenetically distraught Ashenden had rung you up — ’ |
| 20 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 21 | George led the Kingsmarkham group of Morris dancers and in the past Charlie had fripped him when he appeared in his motley suit , his cap and bells . |