Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 3 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 4 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 5 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 6 | Initially at least , NHS resources were not being passed across to the local authorities and the voluntary organizations active within the Riverside DHA which had by this stage succeeded Victoria DHA in another reorganization . |
| 7 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 8 | In her girls ' school , it was a bit like joining a club — " girls who had on this side , and girls who had n't on that side " . |
| 9 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 10 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 11 | The final bit of luck we had on this job was while we were refinishing this table . |
| 12 | ‘ The first group of children we had in this morning had to be dragged out , ’ she said . |
| 13 | There had by this stage been seven rounds of preliminary talks designed to arrange such a meeting . |
| 14 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 15 | British shipbuilding was never to recover the world pre-eminence it had during this period , although the yards were to do well until the late 1960s . |
| 16 | Unlikely though it seemed to students and friends of the scholarly and bespectacled professor , he had at this period worked for what became SOE ( a kind of work for which his precision of mind , excellent memory and linguistic ability pre-eminently qualified him : he contrived among other exploits to smuggle the leader of the Bulgarian Peasant Party out of the country into Turkey in a truck ) . |
| 17 | He had by this time divorced his first wife . |
| 18 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |