Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 2 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 3 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
| 4 | Before getting into bed I went into the large bathroom beside her bedroom , where I had n't been before . |
| 5 | McEnroe was philosophical : ‘ It just got to be too long where I had n't won the big one . |
| 6 | I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true . |
| 7 | Some , such as jazz guitarist Larry Coryell 's 1971 album Barefoot Boy , on the defunct Flying Dutchman label , probably sold around six copies on vinyl ( mainly thanks to side one , where someone had irresponsibly convinced Coryell he could be the new Jimi Hendrix ) ; a CD re-issue is out of the question . |
| 8 | Likewise , a command enjoining some action which was logically impossible , or which had already been carried out , or a lie that through ignorance on the part of the perpetrator turned out to be objectively true , can both be considered defective through the lack of a canonical trait . |
| 9 | Caught in Berlin at the outbreak of war she was able to reach London , where she had already formed her own ballet company under Dandré 's management . |
| 10 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 11 | Melanie decided to adventure downstairs to the kitchen , where she had not been . |
| 12 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 13 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 14 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 15 | She wore riding clothes and her long dark hair hung loose where she had just unfastened it . |
| 16 | Her mother had picked her up bodily the night before and dragged her into her room where she had then thrown her on to her bed . |
| 17 | Alix drove on to the staff car park , as Technicolor Viennese figures in ball gowns , wearing ruby pendants , flowered corsages , turned in her mind , in a scene that derived less from Vienna ( where she had never been ) than from Tolstoy 's descriptions of balls in War and Peace . |
| 18 | He led her into his study where she had never yet been . |
| 19 | They took her to a small , perfect restaurant , where she had never been before , and fed her on soup and fish and meat and cheese , all of a quality and in quantities she had only dreamed of during the war . |
| 20 | A world of dizzying sensation where she had never been before ? |
| 21 | He was a free-thinker — one whose thoughts ranged widely over every unorthodox idea , forging connections where none had previously been contemplated . |
| 22 | She tried to use Spacefleet hypno-techniques to block the remorse , but either they were n't that good or she had n't learned them well enough . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ Ellie hedged without any clear idea whether she had or she had n't . |
| 24 | ( iii ) provided accommodation to the addict in your life because he or she had nowhere else to go . |
| 25 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
| 26 | The court adjudged that , having requested access to a lawyer , a suspect could not then be questioned without the presence of a lawyer , even if he or she had already conferred with the lawyer . |
| 27 | Few staff actually felt involved , even in schools where the head thought that he or she had actively tried to promote staff participation . |
| 28 | ‘ When he came back he said he was going to make more money than he or she had ever dreamed of . |
| 29 | Yet , in 1989 , according to the FBI , only 15% of all murder victims were related to their killers ; 39% were ‘ acquainted ’ with their murderers , but this figure would include , say , a drug dealer killed by a fellow gang member , or even a police officer murdered by a suspect whom he or she had once arrested . |
| 30 | It was useless to baptize people who had no understanding of the faith , or who had not been persuaded by teaching to espouse Christianity . |