Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Experience had taught her that allowing him time meant , in effect , allowing him to stay . |
| 2 | If you were in a bad accident or been into the slums with lice and things , you had to report it and bring your uniform in . |
| 3 | Thomas Buchanan had to hit them and push them to the top of the rock . |
| 4 | ‘ A pity that you had to lose her and earn your own living . ’ |
| 5 | If you went up the railway embankment at night , he said , you could look straight into the window of the room Uncle Titch had given her and see her getting undressed . |
| 6 | He made coffee , then found the piece of paper Roxborough had given him and took it to the phone . |
| 7 | He took the sealed letter DeVore had given him and handed it across . |
| 8 | He saw them in terms of the hours of training he had given them and regarded their departure as something to be listed in the debit columns . |
| 9 | I had to see him and wave him on , ’ she sobbed , opening the contents of her purse into the collector 's tin . |
| 10 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 11 | After drawing a blank on Rhodes , I had to write something that justified my travelling expenses , so I made you the villain of the piece . |
| 12 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 13 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 14 | He had skirted it and approached them from behind . |
| 15 | He 'd sounded regretful but pointed out that he had committed himself and felt it would be ill-mannered to tell his hostess he had now made other arrangements . |
| 16 | His agent , Peter Müller , had prepared it and left it in one of the embassy ‘ letter boxes ’ for collection . |
| 17 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 18 | Rocky introduced them as Carl Wood , Jubal Cantrell and Austen Parker , but Jim Miller would have recognised the latter two as Jube and Red , the pair who had baited him and given him such a hard time before Rocky 's intervention had rescued him . |
| 19 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 20 | Now here , lying on her bed while St Margaret held his dragon power in check , Maggie knew she had indulged Fenna too long , that she had fed him and petted him into overweening size and pride . |
| 21 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 22 | I wanted to believe that this man — this stranger — had seen me and wanted me . |
| 23 | In this damp clay I had left footprints , and over these footprints I now found the splayed-out pug marks of the tigress where she had jumped down from the rocks and followed me , until the kakar had seen her and given its alarm-call , whereon the tigress had left the track and entered the bushes where I had seen the movement . |
| 24 | He said hundreds of thousands of jobs and lives had been destroyed while the Premier had done nothing but watch it happen . |
| 25 | It had done nothing but distract everybody . |
| 26 | We had taken a London business colleague out who had never fished before ; the sort of man who had done everything and knew everything . |
| 27 | If he drew a chair or a pair of boots he managed to convey the effort of production that went into them , as if he had shaped them and fitted them together himself . |
| 28 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 29 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 30 | Equally , he was never sure if he had missed something or escaped it . |