Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before she quite knew what hit her , Mandy had informed Charity that she had personally landed her a job as a cocktail waitress on the outdoor patio — the Susweca Lounge — at the lodge . |
| 2 | I thought it was very unfortunate that Catherine had only given him a daughter , not a son . |
| 3 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 4 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 5 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 6 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 7 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 8 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 9 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 10 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 11 | Pope Gregory VIII ( the former chancellor , Albert de Morra , who had contacts with France ) , who enjoyed only a ten-week pontificate , had already made him a subdeacon between October and December 1187 . |
| 12 | The Prince , then nearly 33 , had already made himself a hostage to fortune by declaring that 30 was a suitable age to settle down . |
| 13 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 14 | Her step-father had already given her a ten-shilling note and told her to keep her mouth shut about it , mind . |
| 15 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 16 | One had already borne him a son ; one would do so soon . |
| 17 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 18 | Peters 's independent approach to economic policy — particularly his reservations concerning the social consequences of economic deregulation — had already earned him a shadow Cabinet demotion in 1989 . |
| 19 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 20 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 21 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 22 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 23 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 24 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 25 | She had not imagined him a sportsman . |
| 26 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 27 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 28 | She knew as sure as eggs was eggs that Kate , bless her , had finally caught herself a man . |
| 29 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 30 | He had just given her a triumph and had got no more reaction than if he had held a door open for her . |