Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In court his wife Christine admitted a lesbian relationship and said her husband had once caught her with another woman . |
| 32 | Marie Claire had once commended me on this negative virtue . |
| 33 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
| 34 | Life had often treated her like that since she had met the Doctor . |
| 35 | In short , life had really left him with little more than a reputation and a network of scars . |
| 36 | She had n't coerced him in any way . |
| 37 | His words had n't affected me at all . |
| 38 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 39 | He had n't contacted her since that early-morning call yesterday , and she wondered if he truly expected her to sit here , simply waiting for him like the princess in the tower . |
| 40 | The fire had n't touched them at all . ’ |
| 41 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 42 | I had n't seen her since that night at the Club and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing her again . |
| 43 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 44 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 45 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 46 | ‘ But you had n't seen her on that occasion ? ’ |
| 47 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 48 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 49 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 50 | After all her husband is in Venice- and she had n't seen him in all the war years , ’ he said . |
| 51 | Missed me programme I had n't put it on this morning . |
| 52 | The men had n't bothered her in any way . |
| 53 | But today had shown her that she was n't immune to normal natural feelings , and even her imaginery passion for the handsome singer had n't protected her from this very real and very frightening feeling of genuine affection . |
| 54 | Or did , ’ she qualified — the last few letters had n't mentioned him at all . |
| 55 | If she had n't subjected her to that late-night journey , with all the upheavals that had accompanied it , perhaps the poor child would not have fallen ill . |
| 56 | She had n't known him at all . |
| 57 | Though , thinking back , surely he had n't known her at that stage , had hardly known who she was . |
| 58 | He emphasized the surname slightly , knowing he was being unfair because they had n't known it during those first days when Bacci had sat by her bedside . |
| 59 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |
| 60 | She had never seen him in such a rage . |