Example sentences of "had [vb pp] and [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mirror the man had stopped and his hands were coming up , clamping together to steady the automatic , feet apart ready to take the recoil . |
| 2 | His companion 's tongue had swollen and his mouth was so full of it he could hardly speak . |
| 3 | His usual good humour had vanished and his hand dropped to the dagger pushed in his belt . |
| 4 | He said that the latest measures had been a success , that Ruth 's temperature had dropped and her breathing loosened . |
| 5 | She thought of all the wicked things he had done and her anger grew and grew like a dark flower opening inside her . |
| 6 | She was laughing at something that Julian had said and her hand was resting on his leg . |
| 7 | In the negotiations in which the King now attempted to play off Parliament , Army and Scots against each other , he acted with a degree of duplicity which might have been justified by success ; it was disastrous , however , when his intercepted correspondence revealed the irreconcilable offers which he had made and his intention to go back on his agreements . |
| 8 | Rather than arguing that lineage solidarity demanded their contribution , or that he had decided and his decision bound them , the shaikh pooh-poohed their claim of poverty , and disputed the invalid 's alleged wealth . |
| 9 | After a further six years ' wait ( during which my original proposer and seconder had died and their nominations had been taken up by two ex-captains ) , my name came up for election again , and this time , I was told , the opposition from members , particularly those in the legal profession who were friends of Lord Robertson , was fiercer . |
| 10 | Her mother had died and her father summoned her to come to him at once . |
| 11 | His father had died and his mother had married another man and completely rejected him . |
| 12 | Anyway , forty six and then we had no house , at all , because my mother had died and my father , we said to my father you leave if you want to we should be alright we 'll find somewhere to go and we did n't and we had to have a Nissan hut for about a year , supplied by the Council |
| 13 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 14 | He was much closer than she had anticipated and his arms came round her from behind , circling her waist and pulling her back against him . |
| 15 | According to Rahab , the Jericho prostitute , the people of her city had had news of the way the Israelites had come out of Egypt , and their hearts had melted and their courage had evaporated away ( Josh. |
| 16 | The grunt had disappeared and her udder hung heavy and turgid between her legs . |
| 17 | With fuel consumption on the McLaren marginal , this was not what Berger had wanted and his tyres were paying the price for such hectic activity . |
| 18 | And Pamela noticed that the fine lines of stress on her forehead had gone and her eyes sparkled . |
| 19 | In the morning , she asked where Tom had gone and my auntie told her . |
| 20 | His popularity had increased and his ambition had increased proportionately — the time had come , he told himself , to put his carefully laid plan into action . |
| 21 | Oh , but I have said the wrong thing , she thought , for her sister 's face had tightened and her eyes burned with a coppery light . |
| 22 | His jaw had tightened and his voice had become hard . |
| 23 | Gordon Jackson , QC , for the boy , said the accused had been severely shaken by what had happened and his months on remand . |
| 24 | The weakness had passed and her chin rose . |
| 25 | By this time Melissa 's temper had calmed and her curiosity revived . |
| 26 | By the time McAvennie arrived in Scotland his brief engagement to Anita Blue had ended and his pursuit of Jenny Blyth was paying dividends . |
| 27 | Before the next match , the selectors debated long and hard over the England captaincy , the problem being that Emburey 's form had declined and his place in the team could hardly be justified ; their solution was to drop him and appoint Chris Cowdrey in his place , whose enthusiastic style of leadership had taken an ordinary Kent side to the top of the table . |
| 28 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 29 | His general behaviour had improved and his language was now appropriate for his age . |
| 30 | Maxwell 's face had darkened and his wife was looking at him anxiously as if she would like to interfere . |