Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] in [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 2 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 3 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 4 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 5 | She spoke truthfully for the first time and said she had n't any more of it — which was a direct admission that she had had it in the first place . |
| 6 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 7 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 8 | He explained about the legend and the Monument and the meteorite that had brought it in the first place . |
| 9 | She had followed him in a second taxi to London Airport , taking her case with her . |
| 10 | Makarenko also dealt summarily with the Poltava educational authorities who had appointed him in the first place . |
| 11 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 12 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 13 | He was not much older than Peter and he looked puzzled , as if wondering not only how to end this conversation but how he had begun it in the first place . |