Example sentences of "[coord] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company . |
| 2 | I wish I could buy them myself , & had hoped to ; but the Speaker rejection makes it impracticable . |
| 3 | PS Stoke just won thier first game under Joe Jordan … so what ? well I was watching it on telly , had to come to work , & had to find something to do ! |
| 4 | Verderers might also be removed from office on a report by the Justice of the Forest to the Chancery that they were incapacitated by old age or sickness , or occupied with other duties , or were insufficiently qualified in that they held no land within the forest and did not dwell there , or had committed or connived at trespasses of vert or venison , or had become a paid officer of the forest , or , in one case , had ‘ entered the priestly order ’ . |
| 5 | Such gigantic creatures could hardly be living in some remote spot unknown to European science , so they had either changed into something else or had become extinct . |
| 6 | This implies that the exiles enjoyed a certain status in his court , but need not mean that he envisaged actively espousing their cause , or had become dissatisfied about Emma 's union with Cnut . |
| 7 | It is true that in peacetime a large proportion of these ships were normally laid up and had their crews paid off : only when war was imminent or had broken out were they brought back into service . |
| 8 | If Liu Chang had lied to him , or had given him a signal which would tip Herrick off … |
| 9 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 10 | In general , the women in the study had spent their wages on food , items for the children or had saved some money while their husband 's wages were spent on larger bills . |
| 11 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 12 | 223 ) that the visitor had failed to take into account relevant matters or taken into account irrelevant matters or had reached an irrational conclusion . |
| 13 | The obstacles included reduction of potential search areas as a result of house-building , roadworks and other developments ; anti-detectorist propaganda spread by professional archaeologists ; and ( most disheartening of all ) news that other detector owners had already searched these obviously attractive sites or had reached exclusive arrangements with their landowners . |
| 14 | What about other people who might change the world , or had done ? |
| 15 | Nearly all were undertaking their own personal therapy or had done so in the past , and all were appropriately supervised . |
| 16 | I would n't normally buy my wife flowers unless I was late or had done something wrong . |
| 17 | Without any more information to go on it was impossible to revise my image of the way the world worked or had done all my life . |
| 18 | Between 1982 and 1986 , 137 of the top 1,000 quoted companies in the UK in terms of market value in 1982 were acquired or had merged with other companies … |
| 19 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 20 | But again there was no reply , and she decided that Bertha was either out in the garden or had gone to town . |
| 21 | All these governments , despite what they were saying or had said previously in public , considered the abduction of their citizens as a political act and were negotiating over it . |
| 22 | Possibly she had pulled her stitches , or had developed an infection in them . |
| 23 | She supposed afterwards that the bear-leader took pity on her , or had grown bored . |
| 24 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — ( a ) the person , institution or other body having the care of the person of the child was not actually exercising the custody rights at the time of removal or retention , or had consented to or subsequently acquiesced in the removal or retention ; or ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . … |
| 25 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 26 | Bunny had finished his beer and the two ladies were still in the Ladies , or had escaped without him seeing how . |
| 27 | I should mention that if for any reason we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 28 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 29 | I should mention that if , for any reason , we did not go ahead or had to withdraw from publication , we reserve the right to give you adequate notice of our intention . |
| 30 | Erm in nineteen fourteen , erm 's , who had a water turbine er as their sort of main motive power for their er milling operations , erm put in or had had , er not only this line , siding , but they had one put in round the back here , erm because that was to provide coal , for steam boilers which were er put in to augment the water power . |