Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anna was growing tall , and her black hair was so unruly Peg had plaited it to keep it away from her pale face . |
| 2 | He and Charlie had had a good laugh over that particular house , but there had been something serious in Charlie 's laughter and Jack had guessed he aimed high . |
| 3 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 4 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 5 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 6 | Well it was what we had to carry you see . |
| 7 | By the time the water had heated she had spread out the sleeping-bag before the fire , laid out a fresh shirt , and found something to use as a wash-cloth . |
| 8 | It had taught him to love his own beauty . |
| 9 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 10 | Iorwerth had taught him to ride , Morgan had been his idol in boyhood by reason of his prowess at wrestling , Meurig , unfree but irrepressible , could never be kept out of any fight though his only real duties with the army were as a baggage-servant . |
| 11 | and his time on Earth had taught him to feel cold as an intellectual concept , if not a physical one , and he might have wished to take shelter . |
| 12 | While he was still a child , the family 's black servants had taught him to make clay models of animals , using thorns for their horns , and how to paint on stones using natural colours . |
| 13 | Rough told how his wife Michelle had taught him to keep fresh food away from detergents . |
| 14 | Ma had taught her to sew . |
| 15 | All the terrors that Tony had taught her came crowding back . |
| 16 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 17 | Beyond the few meadows on this apron of land that girdled the house on the lochside , the hills rose again , hills as individual and familiar to her as people , whose slopes and habits she knew intimately , walking them year in , year out with her father , the gun he had taught her to use broken carefully in the crook of her arm . |
| 18 | Her training , and her experience , had taught her to put the patient first , whatever her own feelings might be . |
| 19 | Apart from that , life had taught her to pry because sometimes doing so turned up the most surprising things . |
| 20 | Much of it , Julia had discovered in her inaugural tour , was what Michael had taught her to call good . |
| 21 | It was that night that Fenna had taught her to fly . |
| 22 | Emma had taught her to read before school , and now the chest was piled with golden and rose fairy books , Winnie the Pooh , Alice in Wonderland , and other things which perhaps Ruth did not yet grasp or should not yet be reading : Lord of the Flies , The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe , Cleopatra . |
| 23 | She dragged the bicycle from the shed , placed the bag and the towelling , a little insecurely , in the basket at the front and somehow managed to throw her leg , encumbered by her heavy skirts , over the high framework , so different from the shape of the one on which Papa had taught her to ride . |
| 24 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 25 | My father had taught me to do a proper somersault . |
| 26 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 27 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 28 | Since Miss Mates had intervened he had said little , although he had had enough to say before that , goodness knew , thought Sally-Anne briskly . |
| 29 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 30 | ‘ If Allah had intended us to fly , he would have given us wings , not arms , ’ the policeman had replied . |