Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a flash I had laid him all out on the ground , |
| 2 | But in other respects she had had her own way . |
| 3 | The government introduced coupons for food , alcohol and tobacco on Nov. 10 to protect the Byelarus economy from a flood of roubles from neighbouring Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) states which had introduced their own currencies . |
| 4 | He made no comment on Lesley 's invitation and Charlotte 's acceptance of it , none on the curious complexities which had confounded their own relationship since they left ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ two hours and more ago . |
| 5 | I remembered how in England I had pitied them all tucked away in oblivion : Feathers , the first man of my course to go missing ; Johnny Soames whose aircraft I had watched skidding away from the formation on one of the early daylight raids over northern France . |
| 6 | Sleepless in Scotland she had walked it many times in her mind . |
| 7 | General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland . |
| 8 | Was this really the girl who had thought it all so ‘ boring ’ a few weeks earlier ? |
| 9 | The tacksmen , he told Johnson , were emigrating , unable to comply with the exorbitant rents demanded by the lairds and deluded by the dreams of wealth they had promised their own tenants . |
| 10 | Two years later Arp was living in Zurich , a member of a group of talented émigré artists who had left their own countries because of the war . |
| 11 | He was so loving and in a moment I had bared my few troubles , and felt it almost criminal to worry him with one 's little difficulties . |
| 12 | And so , from 1958 onwards , these characters became my dolls , and their way , of life and the houses they inhabited became so real to me that it was quite a shock when I occasionally returned to the place which had started it all , Wood Green , near Witney . |
| 13 | Thomson came from a generation of American composers which had to find its own way without benefit of university patronage . |
| 14 | ‘ My love , my love , ’ and was flooded by the days she had called him that . |
| 15 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 16 | No , Crawford , that was the name of the host ; she could distinctly remember Justin mentioning it before they 'd arrived here ; it was his wife who had invited them all — well , not all of them exactly , just Justin — ‘ Because she likes them young , ’ Justin had informed them , as they 'd piled into his old banger of a car . |
| 17 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 18 | Putzi Hanfstaengel , Hitler 's former friend who had fled his own country , presided and read passages of the nordic Edda . |
| 19 | He was excellent at charming wardrobe ladies , new young chorus members straight from music school , and surly , battered old musicians in the orchestra pit who had seen it all before . |
| 20 | The answer was the same as on every previous occasion she had asked herself that question . |
| 21 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 22 | She takes a sip of mineral water before launching into James Woods and his girlfriend , Sarah Owen : ‘ I 've a theory that James and his girlfriend had so many problems they had to turn it all on me . ’ |
| 23 | But last night they had broken their own rules . |
| 24 | He could outmanoeuvre them if he wished but he could not get rid of them and he was only groping round in circles about the tree he had made his own . |
| 25 | Grey eyes swept the outfit which had caused her some qualms , but it was modest compared to Nicky Kai 's , the oyster-coloured chiffon shirt collarless and slit to a point between her breasts , loose enough to leave them a mystery only occasionally glimpsed when she moved , dark nipples a shadowy suggestion . |
| 26 | The Central Authority itself had to fix its own tariff for the bulk supply of electricity to the Boards and initially did well in reflecting costs by resisting pressure for ‘ postalisation ’ or charging a common national price . |
| 27 | Finally , to show she did not hate the woman who had caused her such bitterness , she replanted the flowers herself , and cleaned the muddy gravestone , so that the words could be read clearly . |
| 28 | She remembered coming back into the office after spending the morning talking to a woman who had started her own cosmetics business in her kitchen , and the pink message slip on her desk , saying that Matthew Prescott had called her . |
| 29 | Then more words about his own father who had taken his own life , then retracting words , self-hating words , words weaving webs around his own egotism , then words that made no sense to the listener , words he himself was unaware of uttering as the tears wiped out reason . |
| 30 | In her imagination Louisa saw the man confronted by the chill implacable will which had seized her own hand the previous night and imprisoned her in confidence … that sacred confidence . |