Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 2 | Beg at Duart gate to be let in , where she had ruled till two hours ago ? |
| 3 | Some of the more difficult cases turned up at her office , where she had to cope without professional help . |
| 4 | She is also a great letter-writer , a hangover no doubt from years at boarding school , where she had to write to both parents every week . |
| 5 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
| 6 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |
| 7 | We set off early from Gemiler Island , the anchorage closest to their northern end , where we had anchored in perfect shelter , hunting lizards and mosaics in a labyrinth of Byzantine ruins . |
| 8 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 9 | The rest of the patients were recruited from the gastroenterology outpatient clinic , where they had presented with transient or persistent abdominal complaints . |
| 10 | 2 June Beijing University postgraduate student Chai Qing Feng dies as a result of wounds received during a ‘ brawl ’ at a snack bar near to campus where he had gone with some friends to buy drinks . |
| 11 | Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton . |
| 12 | But I am not that man , Thomas thought , shivering in a heap on the flower bed where he had dropped onto all fours so as not to be seen . |
| 13 | Robinson , made redundant by the takeover of Camerons Brewery , where he had worked for 19 years , will continue to play for West for the rest of the season . |
| 14 | President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak cut short an official five-day visit to China ( where he had arrived on that day ) to return to Egypt . |
| 15 | Even in cases in the past , where he had looked for one and found none , he had always felt if he had searched harder or been luckier , then the answer would have been found . |
| 16 | The wreckage of the plane lay about 100 metres to the seaward side of the runway , where it had broken in two just in front of the wing section . |
| 17 | The dreaded disease had taken almost thirty years to reach Champagne since it was first identified in the Côtes-du-Rhône region , where it had arrived on experimental vine stocks shipped from America via London . |
| 18 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 19 | There was nearly a mile of dense woodland at this point before the swampy ground began and it was over an hour before Crane returned saying that no-one had passed on that side . |
| 20 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 21 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 22 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 23 | This was the first time in my life that I had lived in deep country , without easy access to shops , transport and people I knew . |
| 24 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 25 | More sophisticated , more polite , perhaps ; but ‘ easier ’ suggested that I had to pass through some ordeal . |
| 26 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 27 | ‘ As soon as I was introduced to the concept of the Dewhurst Tennis Academy , ’ said Mr Dick , ‘ and its sole directive to produce champions , I knew that I had to assist in this exciting initiative for British tennis ’ |
| 28 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 29 | Even before that I had put on some weight which did n't all drain away during my illness . |
| 30 | amazed that I had returned at all , and |