Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him .
2 Colin 's conservativism and steady timing had won him second place .
3 I said , well , I said , I 'm , I 'm someone had seen me last week .
4 Tommaso described , rapidly , one of the many round stone shelters scattered in the olive groves outside the town , on the road which led to the sea from the farm where he had visited them last Easter .
5 I had visited it last year out of curiosity .
6 He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas .
7 They had ignored the seriousness of the news bulletins that night and taken a trip down the Mersey on the Royal Iris to celebrate the finishing of their bedroom , though Mr Chamberlain had told them next day that they were at war with Germany .
8 But look where that had got him last time .
9 Had to phone them last night .
10 And Bill had cooked it last night and it were really nice , I bought it last week .
11 But Prean had been fortunate to survive from 10-15 down in the final game in the semi-final against the England No.3 , Nicky Mason , who had beaten him last year , while Douglas , weakened by a stomach upset , survived a hard three games with Prean at the round-robin stage .
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