Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [pers pn] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He reminded her of her concern when she had heard her father had gone out to lunch the day he died , and he put it to her that she had guessed whom he had met . |
| 2 | As happened in their life together , Felix was humbled for a flash by a sense that she had caught something he had missed : something wild in the air Stephen had brought with him . |
| 3 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 4 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 5 | She ached inside , a sensation that had once been very familiar , but which she had deliberately suppressed over the last four years until she had almost forgotten what it had felt like . |
| 6 | He had done everything she had asked of him . |
| 7 | Her heart beat crazily within her as she recalled that the last time she 'd seen him she had hit him with all her might — and from the look of fury on his face he was not easily going to forgive her ! |
| 8 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 9 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 10 | When he reached the spot where he thought he had seen her she had gone . |
| 11 | As soon as Mach had revealed what he had done , DeVore had pressed the tiny panel at his wrist , opening the channel that switched everything he was saying direct into the heads of his three surviving agents . |
| 12 | but Walter Long only noticed what they had said before they were excommunicated : |
| 13 | Alice thought it would be easier to phone someone like that than her own mother if you had done what she had done , but she could be wrong there . |
| 14 | He had done what she had wanted and now she was sorry . |
| 15 | Here , if he did n't return , Primaflora would receive his letter , and his parcel , and would understand why he had done what he had done . |
| 16 | And when said what it had meant to her , loosing personal jewellery and things that was sentimental value to , you know , the family that had died , and they were the only things she 'd got to remember them by , and so on . |
| 17 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
| 18 | He had seen what they had done to Patrick and he knew the man was lying . |
| 19 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 20 | Esther knew what she knew , had seen what she had seen , but like Aaron chose to say nothing . |
| 21 | She had seen what she had seen — she would always see it , and could never tell it . |
| 22 | He was angry with her right now , but that was because he did n't understand , he had n't seen what she had seen ! |
| 23 | If Maurin had told them she had gone home , the woman 's wagging tongue might already have put her in danger . |
| 24 | But that matter of long ago , which he had persuaded himself he had cured by finally taking the maidenhead of Miss Emily Groundwater ; had all that been useless ? |
| 25 | The press reports were based on the discovery of 40 Koevoet members at a private mine and the allegation of a mine security guard that one of the squad had told him they had taken part in the massacre . |
| 26 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 27 | ‘ But why must you go away , just when Corrie 's leaving me ? ’ her mother had asked when she 'd told her she had fixed up a job as a nanny with a family in the north which would give her a better chance of training as nursery nurse . |
| 28 | We told anyone we thought we should have told what we had done . |
| 29 | And it was not only that he had not got what he had hoped for , nor was it the jealousy which made him feel unsure . |
| 30 | All the way back to the Franz Joseph he blustered to himself , justified everything he had done , and thought how dreary and provincial they all were . |