Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [noun] had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gay clergy helped to keep congregations alive in areas where class snobbery and racism had alienated much of the population from the Church of England , and where many other ministers refused to work . |
| 2 | Green refused his help but Laurent had discovered all he needed to know . |
| 3 | He 'd branched out of mod and his look and outlook had changed little for years . |
| 4 | Only shame and pride had prevented that humiliation . |
| 5 | Perdita and Trace had detested each other on sight and , together with Randy , Trace spent a lot of time when they were n't screwing , winding Perdita up . |
| 6 | My father and mother had died some years before and I lived with my brother Rabah , my sister Rabiha , my wife Sulafa and my baby son . |
| 7 | But the combination of television and terrorism had changed all that . |
| 8 | Poland , the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had had this status since mid-1989 [ see p. 37212 ] , as had Hungary until its accession in November 1990 [ see p. 37870 ] . |
| 9 | The fact that flu and injury had precluded any live scrummaging last Wednesday had a detrimental effect , and that department will have to be better for Twickenham . |
| 10 | A light was beginning to dawn in my mind , an elucidation of how man and dog had found each other , of why their relationship was so perfect , of the certainty of their happy future together . |
| 11 | This does not mean that conventional men of intelligence and ability thought that either science or society had solved all problems , though in some respects , such as those which concerned the basic pattern of an economy and the basic pattern of the physical universe , some very able ones felt that all substantial ones had been solved . |
| 12 | Finally we asked teachers if their school or department had undertaken any kind of SSE exercise without using the Solihull booklet . |
| 13 | Pain and jealousy had spurred that sarcastic retort . |
| 14 | Pete was remembering the night — it seemed like years ago , but it was n't so long — that the three of them had sat in the Zodiac down in the workshop and Wayne had made some gentle fun of Pete 's funeral suit . |