Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abnormal hybridization pattern was also seen in one of patient B's sisters ( lane 6 ) , for whom carrier status had not previously been determined . |
| 2 | On my shirt Harvey had arranged that I wore the word ‘ observer ’ , which meant I was able to remember a prior appointment when the going got rough . |
| 3 | I tried to remember what my sister Mary had said about ignoring old wives ' tales and I tried to put them from my mind , but after that I often caught myself glancing at Granny 's picture and it seemed to me that her black eyes came alive and followed me round the room . |
| 4 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 5 | Just as I was fascinated with the reduction in inches from my own thighs when I first embarked on my special diet , I was equally interested to hear whether my trial team had benefited in the cellulite department and I included a question to this effect in my questionnaire . |
| 6 | Kicking back the covers , I let my feet touch the carpet , put on the white and blue striped kaftan which my journalist daughter had made for me and walked to the window overlooking the central court . |
| 7 | It so happened that the mainspring of my clockwork mouse had broken that very morning . |
| 8 | I looked at my port wing to judge the extent of the damage and saw some nasty holes there while my instrument panel had also taken a slight hammering . |
| 9 | My research post had been extended by my working part time , but in 1986 funding ran out . |
| 10 | My sleep/wake clock had bust a spring and I was worried about the fact that it had been Billy Tuckett who had dropped through the skylight . |
| 11 | Because I dreamt about her last night when my manor house had fallen silent and its mullioned windows gazed like sightless eyes over the dark , lush fields of my estate . |
| 12 | They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger . |
| 13 | I was unable to share his joy , not particularly because my home team had been held to a draw , but because I fell headlong into the tent , throwing a pan of boiling rice everywhere . |
| 14 | By this time , however , my gallery experience had taught me that you need money to start up properly , much more money than I had originally thought . |
| 15 | The arrival of Deacon Billingsley should have given me the satisfaction that my telephone call had been treated seriously , but I sensed this policeman was not going to offer me any satisfaction at all . |
| 16 | My waist size had suddenly increased and I could not get into my trousers any more . |
| 17 | Now it was time for our first venture out ; luckily the yard was situated amidst very quiet roads , and my husband John had been loaned a schoolmaster called Paddy to act as escort . |
| 18 | Reluctantly Elinor said , ‘ I had the same problem with Daddy Billy , but in my day wives had to put up with that sort of thing . |
| 19 | Over a fanatically carnivorous lunch in an Argentinian joint on Eighty-Second Street my friend Fielding had been very reassuring on the whole Lorne-Caduta question . |
| 20 | When I woke up the next morning my incontinence sheet had gone |
| 21 | Miraculously , we surfaced the other side of the wave only to find that we were rapidly sinking ; my spray deck had caved in with the force of the water . |
| 22 | He received a message from Hopkins and came to Templecombe but then blundered into the trap My Lord Cardinal had laid for him . |
| 23 | My parish priest had always dreamed of building outstation churches and , with the luxury of two curates , here was his chance to convert one into a builders ' labourer ! |
| 24 | And today , most satisfying of all , for I felt that I and my bill hook had really earned him — the stubby-billed twite . |
| 25 | I was to learn that one of my air gunners had sold the sheep , and he seemed to go into hiding . |
| 26 | He 's got grenades and smoke bombs and other stuff like my kid brother had a box of toy soldiers . ’ |
| 27 | I found , in retrospect , that my participant observation had a ‘ career ’ that seemed to proceed through three stages : passive , interactive and active . |
| 28 | The London Cocoa Trade Amazon Project , as my collecting programme had been christened , was to be the first stage in a rescue operation . |
| 29 | What the crew were not aware of was when I went into the starboard turn and dive without knowing that my aileron controls had been severed , and the fortunate miss of the four throttles made all the difference to the immediate arrest of the desperate attitude of " Charlie " . |
| 30 | I 'd like to think that at least one of my travelling companions had a functioning intelligence . ’ |