Example sentences of "had [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had everyone chosen that night to drink more than they could hold ? she had wondered dementedly . |
| 2 | A Hapsburg Archduchess , travelling to take her four poodles for a Parisian clipping , had them fed three times a day on milk calf fried in Normandy butter . |
| 3 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |
| 4 | ‘ You had me fooled ten minutes ago , ’ he stated with deadly calm . |
| 5 | This bastard , with his bluff ways , merry eyes and welcoming invitations , nearly had me murdered this morning . |
| 6 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 7 | You had me going this morning ! |
| 8 | No sooner had I completed this act of , shall we say , mercy , than a wonderful feeling of peace and calm came over me . |
| 9 | She 'd So I thought well I 'd I Well he 'd I did n't say what he 'd done I did n't ask about that , I mean I had I had enough trouble without asking questions like that you see . |
| 10 | I had I had three checks , thyroid |
| 11 | Where had I heard that voice before ? |
| 12 | Had I heard any rumours to that effect ? |
| 13 | Had I seen that expression recently , on another woman ? |
| 14 | On this occasion I had neither heard nor seen the tigress , nor had I received any indication from bird or beast of her presence , and yet I knew , without any shadow of doubt , that she was lying up for me among the rocks . |
| 15 | I remember that we sat opposite each other — the arrangement I most preferred — so that I could observe evéry modification of his countenance ; and I have to say that never in all our acquaintance had I witnessed such patience and sheer kindness . |
| 16 | It is also possible to express condition through subject-verb inversion in rather more formal or literary style : Had I had enough money I would have bought a new car . |
| 17 | Not only had I had three months reprieve , but there had been no confrontation over any further treatment . |
| 18 | ‘ Had I had any idea what I was coming home to , I should have assured in advance that such a likeness would be instantly available . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Had I known this man would come back to Lebanon , I would have called and said : ‘ Do n't come back to this country . ’ |
| 20 | What had I promised last night ? |
| 21 | Had I left some clue behind , a stray sock not his , an unfamiliar scent on the pillow ? |
| 22 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 23 | THE latest phase in Panama 's crisis began last Friday , when General Noriega had himself declared formal head of government by his self-appointed National Assembly , and simultaneously announced that a ‘ state of war ’ now existed with the US . |
| 24 | On 16 May 1364 , however , another army under Bertrand du Guesclin , a Breton who had himself led such troops before entering the king 's service , defeated the Navarrese army , helped by some English , at Cocherel , in south-eastern Normandy . |
| 25 | Breuer had himself borrowed this technique from the French psychiatrist , Charcot . |
| 26 | Of course , if the employer had knowledge of the contractor 's improprieties , or if the employer had itself made any misrepresentation , the position would be otherwise . |
| 27 | Where had she heard that pearl of wisdom ? |
| 28 | Why had she done these things ? |
| 29 | What had she done this time ? |
| 30 | Never — even in South America with all its faults — had she seen human life like this . |