Example sentences of "[conj] [art] doctor had " in BNC.

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1 Either the corridors were empty of people , or the Doctor had managed to follow a less well-travelled route from Miles 's office to the main airlock , several levels below .
2 The smell of antiseptic , and the helpless waiting , brought back powerful memories of the visitors ' room two years ago , where the doctor had come to break the mind-numbing news that during a routine operation to remove her appendix her mother had died of heart failure .
3 In Bateman ( 1925 ) , where a doctor had attended the confinement of a woman who died whilst giving birth , the Court of Criminal Appeal held that there must be negligence over and above that which is sufficient to establish civil liability , and which shows ‘ such disregard for the life and safety of others ’ as to deserve punishment .
4 He was so certain something was wrong with him that the doctor had to arrange an appointment to shut him up .
5 She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano .
6 He recollected , in his mild stupor , that Mrs Fletcher and Emilia Thorne had spoken to him and that the Doctor had asked after William and had said something about their boy being over at his place .
7 They told him they had heard that the doctor had managed to avoid them all by driving into the lamp post .
8 They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis .
9 Bernice soon realized that the Doctor had , in her absence , come to some kind of agreement with Lacuna .
10 ‘ Dr. Roy 's printed case contained detailed arguments in favour of a contract between him and the committee , but before your Lordships Mr. Lightman simply argued that the doctor had a private law right , whether contractual or statutory .
11 He turned to see that the Doctor had entered the flight deck with Rosheen .
12 She told Julia only that the doctor had been wonderful in finding her son and in promising to let him live in the Campo San Maurizio .
13 Due to the modifications that the Doctor had made to his own vintage car , Bessie , he found that he had forgotten just how slow the genuine article 's top speed was without intervention from superior technology .
14 Bishop pulled the crystal that the Doctor had left in the simularity reader free and turned it over and over in his hands .
15 Fortunately the patrol recognized the doctor and my father , and after learning that the doctor had been called out to visit a seriously ill patient , the men saluted and disappeared into the darkness .
16 Within an hour Andrew Jones was aware that he was back in the land of the living but that a doctor had n't been called .
17 The allegation was that a doctor had been negligent in administering electro-convulsive therapy to a patient without a relaxant drug or restraining convulsive movements .
18 It was agreed that until the doctor had decided when they should go , Eric would be hidden in a hole in the ground which would be covered with planks and earth sufficiently far from the farm for no one to be able to accuse the farmer of having hidden him .
19 However , the proportions for whom the general practitioner was described as reluctant to visit , or for whom it was felt it would have been helpful if the doctor had visited the person who died more often , did not vary significantly between the groups .
20 Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own .
21 I suppose if the doctor had got his diagnosis right , then I would have had to go to hospital but it was to be another ten years before I was sent to such a place .
22 It would be so simple to check if the doctor had made a mistake in reading her mother 's notes .
23 If there is doubt about the cause of death — if , for example , the death was sudden and the doctor had not seen the person within fourteen days of death , or if they had no general practitioner , the coroner must be informed , and will decide whether it is necessary to hold a post mortem .
24 Mrs Bracken 's varicose veins were playing her up and the doctor had told her to rest for a week .
25 The priest and the doctor had listened with interest .
26 Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive .
27 Bernice 's mind was suddenly filled with a vivid memory : she was almost reliving the moment when she and the Doctor had been discussing the difficulty of tampering with the TARDIS .
28 On the way one of the waiters told me Chuck was asleep , and the doctor had been sent for .
29 By the following morning my father and the doctor had made a plan for his escape .
30 We had no means of communication with the people in the mountains , which to us were as remote as Tibet , and the doctor had not ventured there again ; in fact he was now in great danger .
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