Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] had [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a reasonably clear evening and since I had already had a couple of glasses of champagne I decided to cycle over to Sally 's flat in Fulham . |
| 2 | The first time I went to prison I had already had the baby , but he was taken away from me in hospital . |
| 3 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 4 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 5 | I had always had the sense of a ‘ presence ’ . |
| 6 | As one recently retired 62-year-old put it : ‘ I had hardly had a chance to enjoy a couple of days pottering in the garden for the first time in years , when my wife was nagging me to go out and find something to do . |
| 7 | She had just had the pains when Colt had last written , not been feeling herself . |
| 8 | She had also had a pot plant on the chest called David . |
| 9 | Her time in custody was the equivalent of a one-month prison sentence and she had also had the punishment of spending three weeks at the probation hostel , he added . |
| 10 | She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established . |
| 11 | You would never have believed that she had ever had a problem in that area . |
| 12 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 13 | She did not tell them she had never had a job , had been supported by a husband she had left . |
| 14 | She had never had the belt before . |
| 15 | She had never had the need . |
| 16 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 17 | Leith was busily sorting through her wardrobe , finding unexpectedly that , while she had always had an ability to make decisions , she was dithering over what to take with her to Parkwood tomorrow . |
| 18 | Particularly if you had just had a row with your wife , and rather suspected that you were in the wrong . |
| 19 | And er we had a plan for to build a building with er dressing accommodation and er this was gon na cost seven thousand pound when we could n't face it , we thought that there were far more important things to deal with than that when we had housing , we had just had a housing report which said that two thousand houses in the town were not up to the modern standard . |
| 20 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 21 | A successful street collection in Neston raised £154.73 for the society and they had also had a membership drive with the Heartbeat Campaign on the last weekend of October . |
| 22 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 23 | They had just had the windows repaired from the last volley of stones . |
| 24 | He looked around and saw a great many faces all wearing the same expression , an expression stating that they were never going to be surprised by anything in history and that they had already had every thought that was ever going to be in his head . |
| 25 | When I last spoke to the Otter Trust they had never had a complaint against a canoeist but many against anglers . |
| 26 | They had never had an argument , apart from one occasion in 1956 , when Henry refused to wear a pair of short trousers . |
| 27 | France was devastated and er they had always had a lace trade but we found in after years , this is a point that should n't be missed , that destruction by the Germans and the replacing under reparations , I understood the money came from , anyway the firm worked day and night for years , er left Nottingham the lace centre with the old pre-war machines and France and areas , including Italy , er with the modern machines . |
| 28 | They had always had the potential to control their fertility and did so when necessary . |
| 29 | I could see at once that they had all had a skinful . |
| 30 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |