Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 2 | This was important because they had a predominantly ‘ social ’ rather than a ‘ professional ’ relationship with users , and it acted as a reminder that in the final analysis they had the power to impose sanctions when necessary . |
| 3 | But in the final analysis it had been he who wanted out . |
| 4 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 5 | In the spare bedroom I had a demountable work-bench with a vice and an array of small tools . |
| 6 | Auguste caught a brief glimpse of himself in the small mirror he had unobtrusively arranged in order that he might keep an eye on events taking place behind his back ; the surreptitious addition of Mrs Marshall 's abominable Coralline pepper , for example , to an imperfect sauce . |
| 7 | Berger stood stripped to the waist in front of the wash-basin in the small bedroom he had been allocated and examined his face in the mirror . |
| 8 | One night Kit stumbled by , when Ariel was sitting outside the cabin , with the baby sleeping near her in the small hammock she had rigged up for him . |
| 9 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 10 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 11 | Before she knew it Daisy was upstairs in the tidiest bedroom she had ever seen . |
| 12 | As a poor boy in the Soviet Union he had , he pointed out , become chairman of the Supreme Council of Soviets , a job whose responsibilities compared even with those of running 20th Century Fox . |
| 13 | They all hoped Zebedee would leave his calling card in the painted square they had picked for £1 . |
| 14 | Electric immersion heater , er , ah , oh of course we had an Ideal boiler under there and it , that 's what heated this kitchen actually an Ideal boiler and it heated the water in the winter and also heated the , and in the summer we let that out and had an immersion heater , well being in the electrical trade we had an immersion heater all the time and if we wanted to top up from the boiler we used to just put the immersion heater on for a erm week or so and get hot water and then let it go off in the winter time , you know , but er we have n't made a great deal of alteration to this place really , we 've put a new front door on fairly recently , that was one of the things that er was very ugly , they , the back of the front of the doors to look at , ooh they were ugly doors |
| 15 | In the early twentieth-century it had two churches , one shop , no omnibus or train service , no gas or water supply and no electricity ( the Rectory had a private generator ) . |
| 16 | In the early morning they had got drenched in the grass that waved up to his small son 's back , and when the sun struck the dew it was like the silent explosion of a crystal bowl . |
| 17 | War in France had not hitherto been popular : in the thirteenth century it had been said that the English knights ‘ did not give a bean for all of France ’ , and resistance to service in France had been an important element in the political crisis of 1297 . |
| 18 | In the real world he had to be ditched before Labour could ever seriously hope to form an effective government . |
| 19 | On our way to the oasis of Bahriyah in the western desert I had a misadventure with my hat . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not qualified to do much else , ’ Anna said , in the gentle voice she had used to Peter . |
| 21 | Supper was excellent , and I spent the night in the smallest bedroom I had ever seen . |
| 22 | It was just that in the intervening period she had changed her thinking a little . |
| 23 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 24 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | And in the recent article he had read on the subject , even the sergeant in charge of the course had not believed that any woman would take his one piece of infallible advice . |
| 26 | In the Far East she had protectorates in Cambodia and Indo-China and ruled Cochin directly ; further south and east were her numerous South Pacific stations . |
| 27 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 28 | Well I 'll be quite honest with you , when I came in the other day you had a couple and I 'm amazed that you 've still got them . |
| 29 | Well in the other house we had , we had like an airing cupboard here and we took that out and had a shower where the airing cupboard was and we would of had |
| 30 | Editorially in The New Age she had encouraged and brought on new poets and writers . |