Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 2 | During the conversation Jean had brought food and had placed it on the table before Lucy , Doreen and Silas , and now the latter laid down his fork while he regarded Doreen with infinite patience . |
| 3 | Molly tried to speak slowly and rationally but the calm which had sustained her in the villa seemed to have drained away . |
| 4 | He had needed to wind down after the spiralling tensions of the day , and once again he felt the company warmth and support that had sustained him through the day . |
| 5 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 6 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 7 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 8 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 9 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 10 | All the same , the theme is still national honour and personal loyalty , the lessons which Dick teaches to Anastasia as successfully as he had taught them to the weak but responsive Carol . |
| 11 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 12 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 13 | I got more of a role in the whole thing than the Colonel had figured on — I do n't know if my mistress had intended it from the start . |
| 14 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 15 | And then Viola Angotti had taken one more step , and with a faint sigh she had socked him in the stomach so hard that he had doubled over and lost his lunch . |
| 16 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 17 | A short time before , estate agents ' men had put up a board to say that five houses were to be built — but they had erected it in the flower garden of the house instead of in the field as they had been instructed . |
| 18 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 19 | In September 1960 Blake and his family arrived in Beirut where MI6 had enrolled him at the language school known as the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies . |
| 20 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 21 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 22 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 23 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 24 | They had relayed it through the Royalbion representative there , Jim Fletcher . |
| 25 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 26 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 27 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 28 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 29 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 30 | Sitting on the ground in front of it were the two constables who had delayed him at the dovecot during the arms search . |