Example sentences of "[pron] or had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The detective wondered whether Nicola 's husband was deliberately misleading them or had had a genuine slip of memory . |
| 2 | Blake could n't say whether the creatures were pursuing them or had their own sinister reason for haunting this part of London . |
| 3 | It was always a mistake to let Mr Evans know you liked someone or had enjoyed anything . |
| 4 | ‘ Had it been a total shock to you or had you suspected anything ? ’ |
| 5 | When she had aimed the bottle at Gazzer 's head , years of pent-up hurt and frustration had spilled over into violence : violence which she had previously directed against herself or had lived through only in her mind . |
| 6 | Whoever had killed Don Roberto had known him or had a first-rate introduction because there were no signs of violence other than the knife wound and Don Roberto had given his staff time off . |
| 7 | The gunsmith would have murdered him or had a heart attack . |
| 8 | KATE could n't make up her mind all through dinner whether Ace was playing a deep game with her or had decided that as she was available , so to speak , he intended to continue making love to her . |
| 9 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 10 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 11 | ‘ The builder had either spent three weeks cleaning it or had been kept in pristine condition , ’ says Darren . |
| 12 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 13 | Had he imagined it or had he seen a light flickering in the window of the St Manicus chapel ? |
| 14 | Perhaps it 's a one-off you made yourself or had made for you , or maybe you run up spectacular gowns as a matter of course . |
| 15 | Pauline Kael in The New Yorker felt that if Ben , who had nothing to communicate , had ‘ said anything or had any ideas , the audience would probably hate him … |