Example sentences of "[coord] had [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company . |
| 2 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 3 | I 'd learned their names only to the extent that they owned horses in the horse car or had touched bases with Filmer , which came to only about half . |
| 4 | They claimed that he had made and taken away copies or had memorised extracts from a book of secret formulae . |
| 5 | Had he imagined it , or had Chung Hu-yan come to him only an hour back with news of another attack ? |
| 6 | None had symptoms or a history of gastrointestinal disease or surgery or had received antibiotics in the two months before the study . |
| 7 | Some of these were enshrined in local guidelines , such as whether a person was deemed ‘ vulnerable ’ , or if they lived alone or had repeated admissions to hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ But , inasmuch as before the search began the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk that the charge would be the same whether he made extracts or had certified copies , and under that pressure the extracts were obtained , and it would have been most dishonourable for the party , after having got the extracts , to refuse to pay , the money so obtained may be recovered back . |
| 9 | During their stay on the plantation more than a hundred coolies in Village Number Three had died of fever and malnutrition , or had committed suicide but there had never been a death among their immediate neighbours . |
| 10 | They were worried about her being alone in the fiat and had wondered whether she was pregnant or had taken drugs . |
| 11 | As a private registry it was available only to the trading partners , and not to third parties interested in knowing whether a given shipment was sold , pledged , or had taken place . |
| 12 | None had any complicating medical condition or previous history of gastric surgery , or had taken antibiotics or bismuth preparations in the previous six months . |
| 13 | None was receiving antibiotics or had taken acid inhibitory agents within the previous week . |
| 14 | The remainder were either on Youth Opportunity schemes , the dole , or had re-entered education . |
| 15 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 16 | As approved , the bill would give Soviet citizens the automatic right to obtain a passport within one month of application , unless the applicant was involved in criminal proceedings , was liable for military service , or had had access to state secrets in the previous five years . |
| 17 | Or maybe you did n't work hard enough , or had chosen subjects you really did n't enjoy , or you just were n't up to it . |
| 18 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 19 | Having concentrated so far on administration and CIA involvement , Walsh declared that the final stages of his investigation would focus on other agencies which either collaborated in , or had detailed knowledge of , the Reagan administration 's secret arms sales to Iran or its covert resupply network for the contras . |
| 20 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 21 | At least 82 Assembly members , most from the NLD , had died , been imprisoned or had fled Myanma since the May 1989 election . |
| 22 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 23 | Most other independent radio stations had either had their equipment destroyed or had broadcast music programmes and other safe material . |
| 24 | Rostov saw that none of the leaves which had fallen were withered or had changed colour , and the ground below every tree was covered by a soft carpet which was perhaps a metre thick . |
| 25 | Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man . |
| 26 | A report released in late March by a UN relief team which had recently visited Iraq stated that the bombing had caused " near-apocalyptic results " and had relegated Iraq to a " pre-industrial age " . |
| 27 | For one thing , she knew very little of the Empress 's plans and had sensed Ypres 's disappointment in her replies . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , one of the Sheriff 's impromptu posse had earlier been drinking with the brothers and had noticed George 's notorious mutilated thumb . |
| 29 | Last year 's fantasy was that Mossad , the Israeli secret service , had sent prostitutes to Egypt to spread AIDS , and had contaminated fruit and vegetables with the AIDS virus . |
| 30 | She had a divinity degree from London University and had completed part of a law course at Lagos University when she was admitted to the faculty in 1983 as an entrant preparing to sit her bar exams . |