Example sentences of "had [pers pn] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had them brace the back of a human chain |
| 2 | This reaches to the outer limits of hardcore with Carl Cox 's ‘ Rhythm Is A Drug ’ and the Wizard Of Oz 's ‘ Drowning In Your Blood Mix ’ which cleaned up at the band 's recent Heaven gig ( also backed with an ‘ Ahhhcapella ’ version which had them climbing the walls round at my place the other week ! ) . |
| 3 | When I got back I had bed rest for a couple of days and then they had me scrubbing the houses and that . |
| 4 | And that was er under John John was the manager and er I tell you Scott come and he started swearing at me and I says , I did n't m ask you for your bloody job , so next er next morning when they goes , he they had they had me walking the rope . |
| 5 | What right had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family ? |
| 6 | As far as I was concerned , men and boys constituted a separate species , with whom I had nothing in common , and the last thing I wanted to do ( had I given the matter any thought ) was to arouse their interest , which I feared might be predatory . |
| 7 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 8 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 9 | For a second I relaxed but another thought struck : Had I refixed the boards behind me when I 'd fled the turret during the storm ? |
| 10 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
| 11 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 12 | Had I found the market ? |
| 13 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 14 | ‘ Had I continued the action you would have been even more willing by now . ’ |
| 15 | Nor had I forgotten the swivel-gun mounted on the roof . |
| 16 | Had I read the brochure carefully I would have realised that the experience I was heading for was anything but tedious ! |
| 17 | She had so much going for her , why had she felt the urge to destroy herself ? |
| 18 | Sadly , her thoughts of a good omen continued to prove false , because no sooner had she raised the knocker than the door was wrenched open , and a young woman emerged backwards , still talking to someone inside the house . |
| 19 | Had she imagined the violence of the previous months ? |
| 20 | At what moment had she surrendered the tactics she 'd planned to the charismatic persuasion of Luke 's personality ? |
| 21 | Had she heard the name , recognized her even ? |
| 22 | Where had she heard the rhyme ? |
| 23 | How many times had she heard the phrase that she had just used so easily . |
| 24 | Had she seen the whole , ridiculous daydream ? |
| 25 | How long had she seen the face for ? |
| 26 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 27 | Had she locked the door of the main cabin before retiring ? |
| 28 | Beatrice might have been happiest as a political hostess , however , had she won the marriage partner for whom her heart thumped . |
| 29 | In a shocked instant she saw it : had she seized the moment that was lost for ever now , had she spoken to Frere , unfolded the unhappy fate in store for him , it would have spelled disaster . |
| 30 | Had she told the truth when she 'd said there was nothing serious between them ? |