Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed . |
| 2 | Each time you wanted to go up or down you had to pull a chain . |
| 3 | I had or believed I had a secondary , and had every right to be there . |
| 4 | The wine and lemon-flavoured cream whip or syllabub which had crowned the Trifle had begun to disappear . |
| 5 | A great hush fell over the entire Wolfwood , as if , thought Snizort , every living creature knew or heard or sensed what had happened and was waiting to see what the Trees would do . |
| 6 | Forgotten , or decided it had been idle talk , a vow impossible to realise . |
| 7 | You could understand it with his family — more or less ; they had something to lose , or thought they had . ’ |
| 8 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 9 | ‘ Or thought you had . |
| 10 | And , of course , he had — or thought he had — control of the Worm , the legend come alive . |
| 11 | After what he had told me , or thought he had told me , it must have seemed reasonable . |
| 12 | Experience such as Lexandro had gained , or thought he had gained , in the nerve-glove … |
| 13 | Many of them were predictably connected with the murder at the Turk 's Head and what he had seen , or thought he had seen , one night on the railway embankment that ran behind it . |
| 14 | Or thought he had . |
| 15 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 16 | When he was out with a group of other kids , playing kick-the-can or soldiers , he would often sneak away , so that they would never find him , or think he had fallen down a hole or into a burn or a loch . |
| 17 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 18 | Early on in an analysis , a patient may not be able to verbalize their real feelings , or to admit they had hostile feelings towards the dead person , and that a part of themselves is pleased with the death . |
| 19 | He neither knew nor cared who had been evicted from it and left destitute . |
| 20 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 21 | An occasional member of the fugitive genteel stuck it grimly out until death ; once Clara was accosted by an old lady , battered and ragged and bent , who said as she walked along , and in accents of refined madness , that once the people that lived there had held their heads up high . |
| 22 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 23 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 24 | THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten . |
| 25 | She had forgotten that slip she had made ; she might have known that he would pick her up on it sooner or later . |
| 26 | And I 'll tell you something more : it would have been hidden up , as many another 's been , an' she would have been dumped somewhere , or found in the canal , but one of the lasses that found her had a screaming fit and ran out into the street , went barmy , they said , yelling , ‘ She 's hung herself ! |
| 27 | Unable to admit that meeting him had been the catalyst , Luce said , ‘ I realised we were totally unsuited . |
| 28 | About twenty years after the sack of Aurae Phiala , Honorius finally issued an edict that recognised what had been true for nearly a century . |
| 29 | Such was the number of committees that writing itself had to be suspended . |
| 30 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |