Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the fact that he felt he had done it right the first time and not nearly as well the second time . |
| 2 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 3 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 4 | Often , this attitude had left him physically the worse for wear , but not mentally , for he managed to give even the vicious beatings a meaning by analysing his reactions and those of the guards without pride , certainly with no feeling of humiliation , nor indeed with bitterness . |
| 5 | As soon as the men had taken it away the next morning , she re-entered the house , very cautiously to avoid Troy , but her husband had gone out very early and did not return . |