Example sentences of "[vb past] had [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 2 | She 'd had her first transfusions and was preparing to go to the hospital for her next one when world events took over . |
| 3 | Caroline claimed she 'd bathed him , massaged him and that he 'd had her several times dressed in school uniform . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you 'd had your fair share of the library . ’ |
| 5 | So after you 'd had your three children did you get pregnant again ? |
| 6 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 7 | we 'd gone to bed early and we 'd had our deepest sleep and of course we were |
| 8 | It looked as though we 'd had our little flurry and that was going to be it . |
| 9 | Well , he 'd had his one-night stand with Jessica , and it had gutted him , he knew how Karen felt . |
| 10 | I 'd had my first experience with American enterprise . |
| 11 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 12 | They what they knew after I 'd had my fresh claim interview or something like that ? |
| 13 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 14 | He 'd had my bald account of events over the telephone in the morning , his first knowledge of what had happened . |
| 15 | Lochmaben lay some fifteen miles down Annandale , its fortalice a former Bruce stronghold , now a royal castle , of which it appeared , since the present Earl of Carrick 's shame and declension , Douglas had had himself appointed Keeper , by the Regent . |
| 16 | He had had what all men wanted , exactly as he had wanted it . |
| 17 | ‘ Before the night was ended I knew that I had had what religious people would call a conversion . |
| 18 | When Alexandra was nine she had had her only birthday party . |
| 19 | Ethel of course had had her own way of dealing with their advances . |
| 20 | But in other respects she had had her own way . |
| 21 | ‘ Such as ? ’ asked Julia , who had had her own doubts for some time . |
| 22 | Since she was seventeen she had had her own car and when she came to London , a fleet of private hire cars at her disposal , not to mention the taxis that swept round the Mayfair comers . |
| 23 | For a couple marrying in 1860 , the wife was 40 before she had had her last child , while in 1930 , the corresponding stage would have been reached before the wife was 30 . |
| 24 | She had had her timeless hour . |
| 25 | When she had been at college she had socialised in plenty and had had her fair share of boyfriends , Ashley reflected , as they drove along , but since then her energies had been single-mindedly channelled into her career . |
| 26 | The Bush campaign , which had had its late surge halted at the end of October by fresh Iran-contra revelations against the President [ see pp. 39134-35 ] , was unable to recover its momentum before polling day . |
| 27 | His new position reflected the fact that the SHP , now his coalition partner , included 22 deputies representing a Kurdish party , the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) , which had had its official recognition withdrawn . |
| 28 | Until 1985 Contact had had its own user committee . |
| 29 | He had , however , seen his demolition squads begin their work at a cod-meal ( ? ) factory and had had its Quisling owner arrested . |
| 30 | In fact the darkness , the whispers , the creaking floorboards , the footsteps and the thought of a stalking murderer had had their usual effect on her : a state of fear that had little to do with pleasure . |