Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular occasion was on a Sunday , and after dinner he had reduced a full bottle of the golden liquid by almost half . |
| 2 | And we went up there and we had just we 'd , we took the labour rooms and er of course we had got a cup of tea with them you know ? |
| 3 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 4 | It was pleasant to live in the open , and easy to provision both men and ponies ; and the courtier and man of law who had lived a high life in the London Inns and colleges , and been in the king 's own service , was nonetheless a hardy Welshman , well able to campaign in the hills winter or summer , and never complain of a hard bed or a scanty meal . |
| 5 | ( Friend of woman who had had a number of strokes . ) |
| 6 | Except for the drumming and chanting coming from the temple , and the photo display of the horrors of VD which had attracted a huge audience of twelve-year-olds . |
| 7 | Over the eight square feet of hole he had nailed a blanket . |
| 8 | Within her first three weeks of modelling she had done a cover of Harper 's Bazaar . ’ |
| 9 | She lowered her gaze to the plate of food she had ordered a while ago . |
| 10 | On the eve of poll he had placed a £5 bet at 16–1 with a Bristol bookmaker that the Tories would win an overall majority of between 20 and 25 seats . |
| 11 | Now the British built a steam cathedral on a piece of land which had become a sort of palimpsest of indigenous and alien power . |
| 12 | Rats with hypercholecystokininaemia which had had a pancreaticobiliary diversion ( PBD ) operation and sham operated rats served as controls . |
| 13 | Henry Edward Coe had in fact been a pupil in Scott 's office , where in conjunction with Street he had produced a fine set of elevational drawings of the Hamburg Cathedral . |
| 14 | Her own preference was for retracing Maurice 's route at first light in case he had suffered a breakdown or been involved in an accident . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , it was good , ’ she replied , rather vexed in case she had betrayed a lack of appreciation by standing up too quickly . |
| 16 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 17 | Twenty four hours before admission she had had a transitional mole removed from her back under local anaesthesia in the outpatient department . |
| 18 | A Suitable Boy had been planned as part of a larger whole , a four or five-volume sequence opening in India in the period immediately following Independence and Partition and ending in the present day , when the heroine whose husband was sought in volume one had become a grandmother . |
| 19 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 20 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 21 | In fact he had sent a message via the Chief Whip telling him that if he felt he must abstain he was at liberty to do so . |
| 22 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 23 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 24 | During the ride to Pesth they had talked a great deal . |
| 25 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 26 | In another case , headlined as ‘ The Alleged Hooligan Tragedy ’ , a man died after a street-fight and it was reported that on arrival at hospital he had made a statement to the effect that , ‘ I got my injuries in the Borough through being kicked to death by Hooligans . ’ |