Example sentences of "had [verb] it [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Salome had placed it all perfectly in context , and by doing so had made Erich an unwitting ally to the theme . |
| 2 | She said that everything was ordered , and that pleased me because I had to carry it all . |
| 3 | He had foreseen it all , sixteen years ago , on that dreadful evening when his darling wife Lin Yua had died giving birth to his second son , Li Yuan . |
| 4 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 5 | My doctor had arranged it all and I did n't want to do it . |
| 6 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |
| 7 | I had heard it all before and so was a little more sanguine . |
| 8 | Sure Mr. Bonanza had heard it all already , but any small thing might give him a lead to whoever shot poor , poor Jack . |
| 9 | She had heard it all before but he always seemed to forget he had told her . |
| 10 | I had heard it all before and could only think how differently she would be responding if Syl had been Nour . |
| 11 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 12 | I had heard it all before . |
| 13 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 14 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 15 | ‘ Love , ’ she said , promptly , for she had given it some thought . |
| 16 | But this fighter sheered-off without firing a shot , after our rear gunner had given it several short bursts . |
| 17 | long , very nice , very posh , erm I do n't know what me dad 's is like , er me mum was laughing er yesterday erm with er doing all this work she 'd done a load of washing and pegged it all out and when she 'd got in from work dad had ironed it all |
| 18 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 19 | She had discarded it several years ago , as being much fuller than she really liked , but everything came into its own , she reflected , for every article purchased she took pride in finding an eventual use . |
| 20 | No , Steen had organized it all very meticulously to avoid death duties . |
| 21 | I had noticed it several times since I left the Monogram Building . |
| 22 | She slung the milk saucepan casually on top of the other unwashed dishes in the sink , unbothered now by the mess , aware that Rachel had seen it all last night and had said nothing . |
| 23 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 24 | He was used to being ridden do the same stretch of road several times a week , and he had seen it all before . |
| 25 | ‘ They had seen it all before . ’ |
| 26 | She had seen it all before — last night 's high spirits turned to this morning 's hangover , last night 's gay blades to green-faced ghosts , last night 's belles of the ball to tousled tarts with smudged lipstick and laddered tights . |
| 27 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon said he thought he had seen it all but the hospital bombing had broken ‘ every precept of human compassion and morality ’ . |
| 28 | Oh she knew , she had seen it all . |
| 29 | He was eighty ; he had occupied this patch since he was a boy and he had seen it all : drunks , thieves , prostitutes . |
| 30 | He knew what would happen to him , because he had seen it all before . |