Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legend recounted how seventy translators had worked in independent cells and had all come up with the identical version of the sacred text . |
| 2 | There was a burst of male laughter from the bar , which had suddenly filled up with men wearing MCC ties ; the day 's play at Lord 's would have ended just about twenty minutes ago . |
| 3 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 4 | ‘ The notebook had already gone back with another Kazakh climber who had returned early , but I gather that it was written in English . |
| 5 | She had already fallen out with Sutton , who regarded computers with unconcealed loathing . |
| 6 | One day Mary asked her father for money for a pop concert which she had already booked up with a friend without consulting him . |
| 7 | By this time , Sinead had already linked up with Farrelly in Dublin |
| 8 | By now it was dark , with just two small desk lamps throwing clear-cut areas of light : one at a typist 's table halfway down the room where Maxim had finally met up with a pint of cold lager , one at the desk where Dann was listening on the telephone and sipping a small glass of neat gin . |
| 9 | That impressionable child who had swooned and sighed and lain in bed dreaming of Jake MacKay had finally grown up with a vengeance . |
| 10 | A yawn took her by surprise ; her long day and the worry about Dana , to say nothing of the arrival of Roman Wyatt , had finally caught up with her . |
| 11 | Athelstan was sure the murderer was in the Tower and equally certain that some evil deed from the past had finally caught up with Sir Ralph . |
| 12 | Dinah had just gone in with the dagger to smear the sleeping servants with blood . |
| 13 | Pascoe felt a little rush of lust , as if her appetite had just caught up with him . |
| 14 | It must have been legal , ’ said the Archdeacon , who had just caught up with the conversation . |
| 15 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 16 | This was odd , since the BBC had just come up with the figures of 301 for the Tories and 298 for Labour . |
| 17 | When she had finished she turned to Nara , who had just come back with the things she needed and was peering round the door , as if he was too scared of her magic to come right in . |
| 18 | Only a party bigot would claim that they had somehow come in with the Conservative Government three years earlier . |
| 19 | All he knew was that he had always woken up with a splitting headache afterwards , and often wished he 'd had the headache instead the night before . |
| 20 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 21 | But , indulging a passion more secret than her love for Italian painting , Molly had early gone off with Holmes and Watson in a cab through the pea-souper , or sat on the edge of her chair while Poirot summoned the guests to assemble in the library after tea . |
| 22 | Dotty had once gone out with a piece of string to stop its clanging . |
| 23 | Slatter had probably slipped in with the crowd and been served by his wife while he was grabbing a swift meal in the kitchen . |
| 24 | Norman Tebbit had also fallen out with Mrs Thatcher and left the government , while Leon Brittan , recently knighted , found a new niche at Brussels . |
| 25 | A committee at the Ministry of Labour had also worked out with industrialists methods of shifting the hours of work to avoid the winter peak times , and this load spreading helped a lot to contain industrial peak demand at these crucial times . |
| 26 | Mummolus and Sagittarius , however , had both fallen out with Guntram : Sagittarius had been deposed from his bishopric as a result of adultery and murder . |
| 27 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 28 | Christmas Eve had now arrived along with her two grown-up children , Stephen and Carol and Carol 's husband tim . |
| 29 | His wife , then Jackie Irving , had earlier stepped out with Cliff Richard . |
| 30 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |