Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 2 | And erm I they had to have a couple of I mean I think |
| 3 | She had a sort of velvet cap , from which she had snipped a bit of veiling . |
| 4 | The elegantly shabby room in which she had found a haven was an oasis in the East End 's desert , which could be glimpsed through the small bow window . |
| 5 | On the day of the overdose , after her husband and daughter had gone to work , she had finished writing a suicide note which she had started a week before . |
| 6 | All the knowledge she had came from her lessons in the village school , which she had left a year or two earlier . |
| 7 | it had been a great patrol during which we had made a lot of new friends , carried out a great deal of work en route and broken into completely new territory for the cutters . |
| 8 | We 're going to talk to you about er Farm project and its basic problems which we had to put a programme together and er make the job |
| 9 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 10 | ‘ My brother , Mark , is on one song which we had cut a while ago and it wound up going on the record because it was such a good demo . ’ |
| 11 | the main , er the usual recurring cost was er redecorating cost which we had introduced a fund for on the outset |
| 12 | In Northern Nigeria , he succeeded in detaching the judicial system and the technical departments from the grip of the administrative service , whose claims to omnipotence and omnicompetence were thereby permanently reduced from the heights to which they had risen a decade before . |
| 13 | A family who lived there befriended us , looked after our bags and , solicitous of each other , we took turns on the one spare seat from which they had moved a child . |
| 14 | The financial rationale of the great companies had been the way in which they had enabled a generation of investors , most of whom were substantial , to become merchants by proxy . |
| 15 | Winchelsey learnt of this bull in December 1296 and published it in the assembly of January 1297 , called to consider the royal demand made in November on which they had deferred a decision . |
| 16 | He said Thompson had been involved in a traffic accident in which he had suffered a head injury and been concussed for a short time . |
| 17 | That is a gift with regard to which he had reserved a benefit and that gift ( the full value of the house ) will come into charge to inheritance tax on his death . |
| 18 | On the English side the king 's eldest son , the Black Prince , had grown to manhood anxious to win his share of the glory and profits of war , of which he had had a taste at Crécy . |
| 19 | The defendants called rail workers out on strike and the plaintiff , an ordinary traveller , incurred hotel expenses when he was unable to travel on the journey for which he had bought a ticket . |
| 20 | An Australian Broadcasting Tribunal investigation into Mr Bond 's eligibility to own television stations declared him ‘ not fit and proper ’ and growing stock market unease was accentuated by the disclosure that Mr Bond was trying to sell Van Gogh 's Irises , for which he had paid a record $54million but which had been partially funded by the auctioneer . |
| 21 | On April 21 Mobutu accepted the leadership of the ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution ( MPR ) from which he had resigned a year before [ see p. 37336 ] . |
| 22 | Johnny was an old-fashioned inside-forward ( the position in which he had won a League championship medal with Chelsea in 1955 ) , but he gradually moved , via wing-half , to full-back and it was from there that he skippered Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , taking us out of Division 4 in 1960–61 . |
| 23 | A THEATRICAL lady doctor tripped up to me at a party in Covent Garden this week and told me she had phoned a film producer friend and asked how he was . |
| 24 | Between them she had made a decision based only on panic and no common sense . |
| 25 | She smiled as she remembered the quiet scholar with whom she had shared a love of books . |
| 26 | ‘ You were serious when I told you you had inherited a fortune . |
| 27 | And she had a custom she we had to have a book called observation book . |
| 28 | For some reason which escapes me we had to take a taxi , and when we arrived at Helsinki airport we had to wait five hours for our flight . |
| 29 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 30 | This was something we had to put a stop to straight away , and after relaying time and again the simple formula TMPF : TRIM — MIXTURE — PITCH — FLAPS , which he repeated , he always forgot to take action . |