Example sentences of "the doctor had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because she was physically worse after the operation than before it , Rose was convinced that the doctors had made a mistake , and for a long time she wanted to sue them . |
| 2 | Two years after they had been married , Elinor had suddenly , mysteriously , developed a weakness in her legs , and Henry , who , equally mysteriously , in those days was n't trying to kill her , had hurried her to the local hospital where the doctors had diagnosed — wait for it — polyneuritis . |
| 3 | Hawton and Blackstock ( 1976 ) found that during these visits the doctors had , in most cases , detected symptoms of psychological distress , including anxiety and depression , and were also aware that the patients were contending with social and relationship difficulties . |
| 4 | The doctors had let her down , her baby was difficult , her mother-in-law was not good enough . |
| 5 | The doctors had told her to take it easy . |
| 6 | The sight-saving operation had n't worked ; the doctors had n't reckoned on a rebellion in the form of a massive eye haemorrhage . |
| 7 | And when , as late as the Wednesday morning , Law announced that , as the doctors had passed him as fit for only two years , he could not accept the role which attendance implied , the Baldwin forces were sunk in gloom . |
| 8 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 9 | When she first developed her symptoms the doctors had told her it was ‘ neuritis ’ , and she discovered the diagnosis herself by picking up a magazine article in a cafe . |
| 10 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 11 | I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street . |
| 12 | Irina had wanted to nurse him , but the doctors had sent her away . |
| 13 | The doctors had already decided I should have an epidural for the birth . |
| 14 | The doctors had diagnosed it . |
| 15 | The doctors had their salaries increased by 50 per cent , while the teachers were granted a 20 per cent rise . |
| 16 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 17 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 18 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 19 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 20 | Ms Alter said the doctors had refused to meet people ‘ whose information would have been vitally important . ’ |
| 21 | The barristers told Leicester Crown Court the doctors had been punished enough . |
| 22 | ‘ The doctor had visited the man earlier in the day and said he would be back later that night when he thought the pneumonia would have reached its crisis . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The doctor had decanted it himself , ’ the policeman informed him , reddening slightly , ‘ before the guests arrived . ’ |
| 24 | If there is doubt about the cause of death — if , for example , the death was sudden and the doctor had not seen the person within fourteen days of death , or if they had no general practitioner , the coroner must be informed , and will decide whether it is necessary to hold a post mortem . |
| 25 | If this goes on any longer , he was going too , the doctor had told him . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) … a doctor shall be under no obligation to give treatment personally if such reasonable steps as are appropriate are taken to ensure continuity of treatment , and treatment may be given — ( a ) by another doctor acting as a deputy … ( b ) if it is treatment which it is clinically reasonable in the circumstances to delegate , by a person whom the doctor had authorised and who is competent to carry out such treatment . ’ |
| 27 | When the doctor had gone , he opened the top drawer of his desk and took from it the contents of Charlie Hatton 's pockets . |
| 28 | When the doctor had come and gone and the place was quiet again , Richard put on his dressing gown and tiptoed across . |
| 29 | The doctor with his presence and the dog as the witness to what the doctor had done . |
| 30 | He was so certain something was wrong with him that the doctor had to arrange an appointment to shut him up . |