Example sentences of "had [verb] and [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other income came from the calves we had to spare and everyone would lose quite a bit of sleep when the cows were calving since the event would invariably happen in the middle of the night and it was often necessary to play midwife in case of complications . |
| 2 | Her call-up papers had come and she must go away . |
| 3 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 4 | ‘ She was dead to me , ’ he had said and she could see he meant it . |
| 5 | and there 's all sandy wadders around that the , sandy wa sandy wadders that the goats had made and we used to run down there when there was air raids . |
| 6 | Otherwise , you may find that they are not what you had anticipated and you may need to adapt your performance . |
| 7 | I waited outside until the man had gone and I could get on with my food . |
| 8 | To her dismay , her body was reacting to the sensual word pictures Vitor had created and she could feel herself becoming aroused . |
| 9 | I wish Eileen had waited and they might have gone together like the lads , although God knows , Carrie , I dread the thought of any more going . ’ |
| 10 | We had to make and we used to have to take this milk , I used to take it about five o'clock in the morning . |