Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 32 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 33 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 34 | Now I live in a painful planet , transparent as ice ; but it is as if I had learned everything in seconds … |
| 35 | I wondered if I had offended him in some way . |
| 36 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 37 | Marie felt her legs give way beneath her , she sat down on the edge of the pavement , feet in the gutter , doubled-up , sick and winded as if someone had punched her in the stomach . |
| 38 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 39 | And you had to put it in the letter box , you dare n't leave it in the in the . |
| 40 | Erm and it was rather a a and heavy work , you had to have a team of horses to pull a load of suedes and you had to get them in Some you used to carry out on and just drag them I mean s spread them out on the field er for the store cattle and the sheep . |
| 41 | The man 's hairy arm had strayed across into her space , and she had to move it in order to lie down . |
| 42 | Started to make some biscuits and then read the recipe afterwards and she had to put it in the fridge for twenty four hours in the , the pastry in the fridge so they could n't make the biscuits , there I 'm sitting here expecting erm , a biscuit and nothing came , dear , it was n't one of those recipes that you could make it straight away was it ? |
| 43 | And she had done it in secret . |
| 44 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 45 | She was not sure if she had kicked her in the throat . |
| 46 | In a silence full of his broken intention , she caught the look , passing helplessly between him and Lalage — a look that joined her love and her friend as clearly as if she had found them in bed . |
| 47 | The walls were maroon and the carpet was purple and the effect was expensive , but Lee felt as depressed as if she had found herself in the smelly hallway of a neglected and deprived residence . |
| 48 | If she had had it in her power to change anything in that one moment , it would be for Matthew to come to her as a friend . |
| 49 | If you had told me in advance , I would have prepared a few canapes for your arrival . ’ |
| 50 | we knew that , and we had to sing it in French . |
| 51 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 52 | In those days there existed another Methodist Society , known as the Primitive Methodists , and they had established themselves in Chiswick using a room in Devonshire Road , and working amongst the labouring classes of the community . |
| 53 | And they had to park it in a a , an alley on the side . |
| 54 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 55 | They would not have recognized him if they had passed him in the street . |
| 56 | If they had left someone in charge of the horses nothing could be done , but he counted on their having kept together . |
| 57 | And he had stopped her in the lobby once to enquire , ‘ How are things going ? |
| 58 | Kate 's expression was hardly conciliatory , and he had to remind her in a fierce whisper that he was an important sponsor , so that she allowed herself to smile and be polite . |
| 59 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 60 | She was still quietly fuming about Felipe 's remarks as dinner drew near , however , and he had put her in a very awkward position . |