Example sentences of "and [noun prp] had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sight of Dalziel and Pascoe had disconcerted him more than he had cared to show . |
| 2 | Neil had a guilty conscience and Jessica had known it . |
| 3 | Perhaps the only creature to rouse what could be construed as a maternal sense in my heart had been the Egyptian cat , and Nour had killed it . |
| 4 | Then like a fool he had spoken of Maud , and Sarah had seen him as nothing more than a philanderer . |
| 5 | In short , she had called the shots and Dan had let her . |
| 6 | Yet both Rosie and Victoria had warned her against letting herself fall for him , in case she followed the same fate as his other nurses . |
| 7 | However , profit margins are tiny where they exist at all and ICI had made it clear that it was not chasing ‘ profitless prosperity . ’ |
| 8 | For no sooner had the taxi dropped them off at their hotel , and Ven had escorted her inside , than , ‘ If you 'll excuse me , Fabia , I have someone to see , ’ he stated evenly — and suddenly she was feeling dreadful on a couple more counts . |
| 9 | A loud clanging , accompanied by a rough , shouted curse , had answered the shriek , and Isabel had known they were passing the dungeons . |
| 10 | And Ward had said it was all fixed , he would join us on Isvik and navigate us to within sledging distance of the trapped vessel . |
| 11 | His wife , Martha Bernays , came from Hamburg , and Freud had met her when she was living in Vienna . |
| 12 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 13 | She had had more help and affection from her dear old Agnes than ever Ray and Kathleen had shown her . |
| 14 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman had taken her under their protective wing and such master opportunities did n't need any convincing that the success of the soap could be translated into success in the record business . |
| 15 | Not without throwing a great lot onto the rates because the rates were just Selkirkshire , and Peebleshire had to keep it up then and er we did n't er get grants for it in these days . |
| 16 | The muscles had been fully stimulated during the growth period and Ewan had supposed they 'd be fully operational immediately . |
| 17 | Yes , of course he did , probably thought she and Donal had cooked it up between them . |
| 18 | She had sent a cheque , and Harrods had despatched it by courier . |
| 19 | Young Richard would be kept busy with his learning for some considerable time yet , Cissie would not be ready to come home until tea-time , and David had warned her that it would be late when he and his ‘ father ’ returned , especially as Luther had expressed a desire to ‘ celebrate afterwards ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas . |
| 22 | And yet it was not all bad news , she reminded herself , because Matthew was no longer condemned to go underground in order to earn a living , and David had told her how amazed he was at ‘ the boy 's remarkably quick mind and business acumen ’ . |
| 23 | And since then Ratagan had hardly said a civil word to his wife , though she looked at him almost imploringly at times , and Riven had seen him gaze at her when her head was turned , brow creased in pain . |
| 24 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 25 | It was the following day , a Tuesday ; Ben Hesketh had arrived again , this time with a big estate car , and Ruth had helped him load the crates into the back . |
| 26 | By the end of the evening both she and Reggie had given us their seal of approval . |
| 27 | Her name was Mrs Tobias and Hugh had met her when he handled her divorce case , successfully , because Mr Tobias had made a determined rush for freedom , scattering alimony lavishly as he went . |
| 28 | She could hardly descend on Giovanna Sassanta 's house without an appointment , and Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want her to cross the threshold of his hospital . |
| 29 | Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine . |
| 30 | She knew that dead people could be kept in this state because the man who lived next door to Mrs MacDonagh worked in an undertakers , and Ellie had heard him talking about it to Mrs MacDonagh . |