Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 2 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 3 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 4 | On a modest few hours climbing we had sampled two new crags and climbed fine routes — a melange of anxiety , adventure and delight set against a backdrop of a wild , lonely coastline . |
| 5 | I recall that during my last six months service I had the magnificent sum of £6/5/ ( £6.25 now ) to spend on myself . |
| 6 | The misery was shared by France 's Ville de Paris , who collided with Nippon and lost both the umpire 's verdict and most of the her bow , and New Zealand , who came from behind to cross the line 2ft in front of Il Moro di Venezia only to have the victory overturned when the umpires ruled she had brushed the finish-line buoy. 6univ |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 8 | ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman . |
| 9 | One of the things that distinguished Belmodes from its rivals was the small chain of shops Rose herself had launched . |
| 10 | Moreover , even in eschatology and its presentation in terms of history , the idea of the future that dominated Hebrew thought involved a return to the primeval state that the Jews believed they had lost . |
| 11 | Even with his eyes closed he had n't seemed relaxed . |
| 12 | The questioning look in his eyes showed he had n't missed the slip . |
| 13 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 14 | Each night she wrote glowing tributes to him in her diary but love had turned to hate by August and diary entries showed she had decided to kill the object of her former devotion — and his manager . |
| 15 | When the shops opened he had sent out two of his men to buy him a list of items he needed : a very large-scale map of the area north of London extending fifty miles in all directions , a matching sheet of clear plastic , map-pins , chinagraph pencils in different colours . |
| 16 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 17 | There were two clients waiting who had to be sent away . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Blum tried his supporters saying they had done better than predicted . |
| 19 | To be sure of providing physicists with details of the world beyond the standard model , the SSC 's designers decided it had to be able to make particles with masses of one trillion electron volts ( 1TeV ) . |
| 20 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 21 | And when the Germans bust the tunnels wide open , both parties thought they had justified themselves . |
| 22 | Until then , colleagues and readers thought she had been happily married to the man she always referred affectionately to as Proopsie . |
| 23 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 24 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 25 | with hocked gems financing him/ our hero bravely defied all scornful laughter/ that tried to prevent his scheme/ your eyes deceive/ he had said/ an egg/ not a table/ correctly typifies this unexplored planet/ now three sturdy sisters sought proof/ forging along sometimes through calm vastness/ yet more often over turbulent peaks and valleys/ days became weeks/ as many doubters spread fearful rumours about the edge/ at last/ from nowhere/ welcome winged creatures appeared/ signifying momentous success |
| 26 | Traders said there had been an initial bout of panic at the prospect of the meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries finishing without a deal on output levels . |
| 27 | Two out of three dentists said they had extracted teeth that they might have filled before the contract was introduced . |
| 28 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 29 | ‘ The match went ahead although most Boro supporters wished it had n't — they were trounced 4–1 . |
| 30 | The ability of Philip Augustus and his immediate successors to translate what had for long been no more than theoretical claims into judicial , and sometimes geographical , reality changed the balance of forces . |