Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was called upon , day after day , to sustain Mrs Browning in her awful anxiety and she did it willingly , dragging out from the furthermost corners of her memory evidence of Miss Henrietta s strength and fortitude together with examples of women of whom she had heard who had survived this disease . |
| 2 | Roland had supposed she had expected this , but it became dreadfully obvious that she had not . |
| 3 | She felt a sensation of floating , since the poison which had claimed her had blocked all physical feeling , and she could not move her head to see the men who were carrying her . |
| 4 | And they used to catch pheasants and er I had to clean I had to pluck these pheasants and er birds and get them ready and ready for them to put in the oven . |
| 5 | He said this explorer had said he 'd had some special underpants made so that he could pee in the river safely . |
| 6 | In 1937 , she had felt she had had enough of the pernicious course of human history . |
| 7 | When she first lost her eye , she had had trouble keeping her balance , but she had thought she had overcome that . |
| 8 | She had thought he had had enough of all that rural tranquillity , and had wanted to live somewhere lively and sophisticated . |
| 9 | Before ten minutes had passed he had rejected this in favour of a 50″ × 40″ canvas that made possible a full-length portrait ( Plate 19 ) . |