Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Eve had phoned Benny twice in the last week to say that life in the Dublin convent was intolerable and she would have to meet her in Dublin because otherwise she would go mad . |
| 2 | A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder , indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a café . |
| 3 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 4 | The fall in activity was partly the result of a US naval blockade in the Strait of Tiran , although many ships had abandoned Aqaba earlier in the month for purely commercial reasons ( i.e. an increase in shipping insurance rates ) . |
| 5 | Particularly when it was discovered — as it would be — that she was the mother of a bastard child , the daughter of a man who had left Frizingley heavily in debt , and had already been dismissed by Miss Ernestine Baker for her loose behaviour in a public street . |
| 6 | A Ferguson penalty after Canning had fouled Ferris needlessly in the corner of the box made it two . |
| 7 | A Ferguson penalty after Canning had fouled Ferris needlessly in the corner of the box made it two . |
| 8 | Her balance was very poor ; she could not stand up on her own , because strong associated reactions would pull her left side over ; her left Achilles tendon was extremely tight ; her left shoulder was very painful ; her arm was pulled into a bent position , with the hand tightly closed in a fist ( flexor spasm ) ; she could hardly sit up straight because of the severe spastic muscle pull on the left side of her body ; her mother had to push Dawn everywhere in her wheelchair , and give her total nursing support . |
| 9 | In his memoirs President Carter 's National Security Adviser , Zbigniew Brzezinski , relates that he had urged Carter already in February 1979 to abandon earlier plans to demilitarise the Indian Ocean and to adopt a new ‘ security framework ’ to reassert American power and influence in the region . |