Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had decided to have neither a healer nor a counsellor , I had , in earlier weeks when feeling positive , made gentle , tentative enquiries . |
| 2 | She wished she had decided to come home a month earlier , even two days earlier . |
| 3 | Dawn Groves had hoped to put together a production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat but the amateur rights have been withdrawn . |
| 4 | His challenger , Mr Edwin Eisendrath , a city alderman , had tried to stitch together a coalition of young apolitical professionals and ‘ reform ’ Democrats . |
| 5 | Benny had elected to carry only a revolver , though she had tucked a couple of grenades in the pockets of a second safari jacket she had pilfered from the TARDIS 's wardrobe . |
| 6 | When she had booked herself a room the clerk had suggested taking either a water-taxi or a vaporetto to the hotel . |
| 7 | Poppy had managed to gather quite a collection of workmen 's boots , so I went to the pet shop and bought her some toys , which she loved playing with . |
| 8 | She scuttled over to the far side of the room and had managed to read quite a lot of the letter before Julius came charging after her , taking the paper back from her with such force that it almost ripped in half . |