Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was born in 1902 in Windsor , where my father was head gardener on a small estate named Abbey House , and where my mother had been cook . |
| 2 | ‘ I landed on a lump of wood , felt another crash on to my face and was just getting up when a huge piece of glass fell where my neck had been . |
| 3 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 4 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 5 | The left haunch was matted red with blood where my pellet had hit it . |
| 6 | There was just an empty space where my hatred had been . |
| 7 | To suggest continuity between himself and the triumphant generals of the later Republic , Octavian reconstructed all the buildings in the area of the Porticus Metelli , where their booty had been displayed . |
| 8 | The Nightriders choir , including Santa , helped 1,000 passengers pass the time at Stansted , Essex , as they waited to be taken by bus to Luton or Gatwick where their flights had been diverted . |
| 9 | 8.38 to 8.40 ) , that , should ( as the Act has done by the previous section ) the currency of a licence be extended to three years , it was desirable that a licensing board should have some form of sanction against the licence-holder where the premises were being misconducted , or where their suitability had deteriorated , and that such a sanction should be the power to suspend a licence . |
| 10 | Their brakes must have locked as they were coming down the slope , for there was a twenty-yard slice of chocolate loam where their wheels had scoured the turf . |
| 11 | As they listened in class to the dialogues which the children were constructing for themselves they were able to see quite clearly where their preparation had been deficient and where their teaching of new material had not been thorough enough . |
| 12 | Where their street had been was a wasteland . |
| 13 | At Corbett 's bidding an old man showed them the blood-spattered piece of ground where their priest had been found . |
| 14 | The small Achray Hotel had vanished ; all that remained was a foot of brickwork where its base had been . |
| 15 | He asked her then where her smile had gone . |
| 16 | And Christie Goldsborough , who owned those pawnshops and those taverns could find out if he so wished just where her satin had gone . |
| 17 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 18 | The only sign that anyone had ever occupied it was the flattened grass beneath the tree , where her blanket had been . |
| 19 | She moistened her lips , feeling the raised and tender flesh where her teeth had bitten through . |
| 20 | Where her tooth had fallen nut a sturdy new one was forcing its way up , with frilled edges and ridged from top to bottom . |
| 21 | Suddenly she was shimmering with anger as she faced him , yet not quite certain where her anger had sprung from . |
| 22 | Vulnerable places on her neck and throat were kissed before his lips found their way to her breast , where her nipples had again firmed into rosebuds . |
| 23 | She came from a prominent Bristol family of nonconformists and industrialists , where her father had long been active in the abolitionist movement . |
| 24 | She wished she had n't seen this house where her father had lived . |
| 25 | She was putting her mouth where her hand had been , sucking him into her . |
| 26 | It was ten years ago , ’ he reminded her wryly , glancing down at his forearm where her hand had briefly brushed . |
| 27 | The street shelter had been hit and Ruby had been dug out to see a crater where her house had been and fires burning fiercely everywhere she looked . |
| 28 | A thin trickle of blood was darkening below his mouth where her ring had torn the skin . |
| 29 | There had been a month or so where her face had been seen almost daily on TV : they had not yet quite forgotten . |
| 30 | Nicola 's voice was coming and going like a tricky radio signal ; she could feel a stinging dampness where her calves had dragged over the rough brickwork atop the wall . |