Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] had [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 2 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 3 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 4 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 5 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 6 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |
| 7 | No wonder he had seemed a bit on edge . |
| 8 | He grew flowers on the graves : last winter he had started a cemetery at the bottom of the garden and stuck in a big cross for a sign . |
| 9 | As a child he had played a game with some of his friends where one child would stand behind another and put his hands round the other 's chest . |
| 10 | But in her heart she had felt a pang of unease . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , it was good , ’ she replied , rather vexed in case she had betrayed a lack of appreciation by standing up too quickly . |
| 12 | It was that same look she had caught a glimpse of earlier . |
| 13 | At one point she had joined a group of these elderly relatives , women either widowed , de-childed or , their men at the bar talking men 's talk , temporarily joined in huddle with sisters . |
| 14 | Thank goodness she had married a visionary like Stephen . |
| 15 | Yes , the tour was definitely looking up a little , and only the previous evening she had written a card to her daughter to say that in spite of a death and a theft and a murder she was ‘ beginning to make one or two very nice friends on the trip ’ . |
| 16 | In the process she had made a lightning circumnavigation of the British Isles and was now steaming hard down the west coast while we returned by the eastern route . |
| 17 | To the last moment he had feared a trap , but this was the fresh air before him , the dim air of the ravine he knew , hemmed in with rock on both sides between the church and the castle . |
| 18 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 19 | By the Ptolemaic Period he had become a god of healing and thus was associated with Imhotep in the Theban temples of Deir el-Medina and Deir el-Bahri . |
| 20 | For his funeral he had made a list of people he wanted invited ( they did not include any Japanese ) , the lessons he wanted read , the hymns he wanted sung . |
| 21 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | We always went out in twos and threes , for obvious reasons , but all the same by the time we were approaching the field we had collected a following of about a dozen . |
| 24 | That day I had bought a fern , a modest enough plant but with bright , shiny leaves and an indestructible appearance . |
| 25 | On another occasion I had received a letter from my mother — not usually given to handing out advice : |
| 26 | On one occasion she had drunk a lot of alcohol , which had made her feel worse . |
| 27 | During the day we had shared a track with several bands of people — dog walkers , long-distance backpackers , ramblers and day walkers . |
| 28 | By the time we reached the Red Fort we had hit a traffic jam . |
| 29 | Masters of their art , Stock , Aitken and Waterman realised that day they had unearthed a talent that could outshine anything , even in their empire . |
| 30 | By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain . |