Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D-1 competes with Mannesmann Mobilfunk 's GmbH 's D-2 system , and Telekom conceded that the Mannesmann network had outpaced its own D-1 system in winning subscribers , and that its own share was well below 50% . |
| 2 | But Salome had placed it all perfectly in context , and by doing so had made Erich an unwitting ally to the theme . |
| 3 | In its heyday , the company had filled its own site with slag and so had built a bridge over the road and railway so it could shunt more slag into the neighbouring field . |
| 4 | But if that was n't a second smokescreen settling on Oxendown House as fast as possible after Charlie 's Indians had withdrawn their own , then I do n't know smoke signals when I smell them . |
| 5 | I knew very little about boats , and had hated what little experience of sailing I had had , but it seemed unlikely that any boat would shut down its engine until it was safely round into the bay , or even then . |
| 6 | Nigel dared to disagree with her — he had hated his own school and he thought he divined Gina 's reason for wanting Anthony out of the way . |
| 7 | By the following day up to 50,000 Moldavians , some armed , were blockading the Gagauz districts , where the Gagauzes in turn had formed their own defence force . |
| 8 | Because there had been a recent spate of thefts from boats in the area the Club had formed its own teams of vigilantes who patrolled the moorings and by chance one of these noted down the camper 's registration number . |
| 9 | By this time Odinga had formed his own party , the KPU ( Kenya People 's Union ) , but following an incident in Kenyatta 's presence at Kisumu he was jailed in October 1969 and the KPU banned . |
| 10 | They all asked whether he played for the Beatles or the Stones , and were much amused to hear he had formed his own pop group with some of his fellow junior students . |
| 11 | He had formed his own view of Jake although Harry had not coloured it by any comments other than the barest fact . |
| 12 | Party managers arrived at that conclusion because that is the way they had treated their own party for the past eight years . |
| 13 | Miss Thorne had taught them all the names of the different stage areas . |
| 14 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 15 | He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew . |
| 16 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 17 | Was it perhaps he who had taught her all those words ? |
| 18 | Nannie had taught her that one , and she felt it was very true . |
| 19 | Erm but the most unfortunate thing that Old Edward the the old chap who owned the place he was living in part of the house and Old Jane , his housekeeper , my mother she could bake bread and wash , her mother had taught her that , but it was making butter that was the problem . |
| 20 | ( Who had taught her these words ? |
| 21 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 22 | The ease with which he had provoked her own tumultuous response alarmed her . |
| 23 | Which meant that something else , apart from the defence of Silvia , had provoked her own furious outburst yesterday evening . |
| 24 | Her husband 's letter had reached them as soon as they arrived in their summer resting place and had plunged them all into abject misery . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A few of the owners , like the Lorrimores and Daffodil and Filmer , had arranged their own transport separately in the shape of chauffeur-driven limousines , their chauffeurs coming over to the train to carry their bags . |
| 27 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 28 | My doctor had arranged it all and I did n't want to do it . |
| 29 | Rich had conquered his own temper enough to take and not to spoil this rare second shot at school . |
| 30 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |