Example sentences of "had [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had nothing to give Merymose to take to Kenamun , and the priest-administrator would not thank him for information which cast suspicion on two of the most powerful men in the country . |
| 2 | ‘ Until now I had no-one to tell things to and that 's almost as much fun as learning them . ’ |
| 3 | I had them stopped ages ago . ’ |
| 4 | Oh , he had them locked antler to antler now , two proud stags with lowered heads and rolling eyes , gathering their sinews for the thrust that should send one of them backing out of the contest . |
| 5 | I had them blend Blue Mountain , Continental and Mocha Mysore . |
| 6 | She had me altering corsets . |
| 7 | Had I seen love at Bristol ? |
| 8 | You start to think , well of course , had I done so-and-so yesterday , had I done , and I 've missed on so- and-so , so you sort of , review the day for a couple of hours , and then it gets to about four o'clock and now you 're thinking , Oh my God , I 'm at the accountants the next day , I 'll be so tired , I 'll be you know , and it 's too late to do anything about it now , so now you 're having a bad day the next day as well because you 've got yourself all stewed up about that . |
| 9 | No sooner had I equipped Gillian and her Squire with a cup of Formosa Oolong than I asked her how old she was , what she did , and whether her parents were still alive . |
| 10 | Had I got time ? |
| 11 | Why had I had cancer ? |
| 12 | ‘ I might have done had I had time … and had I remembered . |
| 13 | However , had I known Ben and Meg would be there … ’ |
| 14 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 15 | ‘ Had I paid heed to the advice of many people in England … and adopted masculine garments , I should have been spiked to the bone , and done for . ‘ |
| 16 | Examined my hands — had I caught Scab Woman 's scab ? |
| 17 | As usual , no sooner had I put brush to paper did the local and tourist onlookers arrive , along with a thirsty dog . |
| 18 | And Lady Paignton , whom you met yesterday , is always saying she wished she had somebody to do shopping for her . |
| 19 | CONOR O'DWYER ( Laura 's Beau ) : ‘ He had plenty to do coming onto the racecourse , but finished in great style . |
| 20 | ‘ If she had her putting glasses on , anything at a distance would look fuzzy . |
| 21 | JUST last week , General Manuel Noriega , already the supreme ruler of Panama , had himself named head of government and ‘ maximum leader for national liberation ’ by his personally appointed legislature , which went on to pronounce the country to be in a ‘ state of war ’ with the United States . |
| 22 | Nowhere in Eliot 's anthropological reading had he come across an example of a student of primitive civilization who had himself turned cannibal . |
| 23 | Singh had himself replaced Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in February 1988 [ see p. 36027 ] . |
| 24 | He had himself studied nature printing in Vienna and was intent on proving that Austria had no claim to exclusive rights . |
| 25 | He had himself declared shogun in 1603 . |
| 26 | Sancho meanwhile had himself crowned king of Leon , and thus came to rule over the most extensive kingdom in the whole of Christian Spain . |
| 27 | When Robert Bruce , Earl of Carrick , took up the fight against the English and had himself crowned King of Scotland , Walter the Steward ( Walter Stewart ) supported him and fought by his side in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn . |
| 28 | In 1923 he had himself mentioned Smith 's work , and in 1925 he published Smith 's long essay on ‘ The Glamour of Gold ’ . |
| 29 | Eanes had himself urged voters to vote for the PSD . |
| 30 | The idea originated with the late Dick Minnis , a member of both Larne and Kenilworth , who for much of the previous year had himself feared blindness , but thanks to medical skill this was averted . |