Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ‘ The disappearance ’ , Imamu has to prove that he had nothing to do with Perk 's disappearance by finding her dead body in someone else 's house having been murdered by that person and Boo has to risk his own life in order to save that of Scout 's before his most ignorant neighbours realise he 's not a squirrel eating monster . |
| 2 | She rejected the idea immediately : the Newleys deserved to reap as they had sowed . |
| 3 | Even if Neil had returned while I had been asleep , he would take care not to show a light . |
| 4 | Down on the steps , Marie had decided that she had made a mistake . |
| 5 | That was the message Molly had received when she had come down the stairs and left her husband at the dinner table . |
| 6 | But what would Gemma want to eat if she had the choice ? |
| 7 | Haig came to believe that what had once been achieved , so swiftly and at relatively little cost , might be repeated . |
| 8 | Loretta began to wonder if she had been mistaken . |
| 9 | Benny had heard that they had sent to Dublin and maybe even Rome for him to have a dispensation , and it was n't a question of his being a sinner or outside the Church or anything . |
| 10 | Marius had confessed that he had crippled a Turkish immigrant in Stockholm and Alex was told the registration number of the Land Rover he had left behind at the German frontier when he had deserted . |
| 11 | Now at last Maggie had realised that something had gone wrong . |
| 12 | And ever since Simon had revealed that he had accepted the lunch invitation her adrenalin had been humming . |
| 13 | Speaking at his home last night , Mr Hall refused to say if he had known Timex had been planning to close the factory . |
| 14 | That was where she liked to mark papers , under the laburnum tree Harold had planted when they had moved in , many years ago . |
| 15 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 16 | Dr. Yeats had replied that he had only followed the practice in Edinburgh hospitals , where cases of venereal disease were isolated . ) |
| 17 | For once Miss Coldharbour had looked uncomfortable and said she 'd have to ask Canon Wheeler , from which Julia had inferred that they had hoped to get her for free . |
| 18 | She and Tom had met because they had had a playful debate about whether and in what sense you could say that coal pre-dated miners . |
| 19 | This was met with a reply of condonation , that 's to say his behaviour in Reno had demonstrated that he had forgiven his wife whatever actions on her part had forced him to seek a divorce in the first place . |
| 20 | His flight had left New York three hours after the Paris flight and by then the worst of the turbulence over the Atlantic had dissipated so he had been able to sleep for most of the journey . |
| 21 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 22 | The emotion was so unlikely — and such a betrayal — that Julia wanted to believe that she had never felt it . |
| 23 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 24 | How would Vitor have reacted if he had seen her ? |
| 25 | To be fair , Same-Lamborghini UK did say that it had n't had any complaints about lifting capacity here . |
| 26 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 27 | Defries had decided that someone had to take charge . |
| 28 | Emily tried to remember if she had ever known in the days of seeing him that he was such a strong swimmer , but nothing much came back . |
| 29 | Flavia managed to recall that she had been asked to dinner and that the time was eight . |
| 30 | Afterwards Jaq had felt that he had betrayed Olvia . |