Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not really matter who we were or where we had come from ; the fountain united us all in a common purpose and that was enough . |
| 2 | Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived . |
| 3 | Oh yes , yes , they even had like they used to have savings ' weeks er salute the soldier week , they used to have promotions for National Savings you see and we used to get so much money or where they had a bid thermometer on the car park in Street which is now the extension of the Gala Baths and they used to show how much savings had been put in they used to have targets for people , to put the National Savings in , they used to have an Anglo-American friendship week . |
| 4 | You did not tell me what you had been doing , or where you had been , and you were not interested in whatever I might have been doing . |
| 5 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 6 | Where once you had Ghosts Of Princes In Towers , now you 've got Kingmaker . |
| 7 | The companies successfully argued that many elements of the Macintosh screen , which uses movable symbols rather than typed commands , were not original or that they had been invented by Xerox Corporation or International Business Machines . |
| 8 | The two newslines were the fact that the band all possessed degrees or that they had chosen George Beat ( v. old footballer , as they would say ) . |
| 9 | The reference to the tent meant either that ‘ John Parsons ’ had written it , and was hoping to see me around , or that they had teamed up on a declared truce . |
| 10 | Sometimes they possessed knowledge about sex , but could not admit that this was sexual , or that they had those sorts of desires . |
| 11 | Held , ( 1 ) that on an appeal to the High Court from a decision of justices under the Children Act 1989 fresh evidence could be adduced only with leave in exceptional circumstances , and the court would not interfere with the exercise of the justices ' discretion unless it considered that their decision was plainly wrong or that they had erred in principle ; and that , further , an interm order would not lightly be interfered with in view of its temporary nature and the often provisional character of the evidence ( post , p. 271A–B ) . |
| 12 | The Lord Chief Justice had said then that it would be wrong for it to appear that the proposals had the backing of the judges or that they had had any hand in their preparation ; and that it was essential that the judges remained at arm 's length . |
| 13 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 14 | I have just met some colleagues in the House — and I do not dare to name the Opposition Members — who asked me questions about the amendment because there were points that they could not understand or that they had not seen before . |
| 15 | A number of people were granted exemption on the grounds either that they were too poor to pay taxes and rates or that they had a certificate signed by the minister and parish officers to the effect that their premises were worth not more than 1 per annum or that their personal property was worth less than £10 per annum ; however , no exemption was allowed anyone possessing more than two hearths . |
| 16 | This is partly because of their ephemeral nature and partly because disclosure would often reveal either that very sensitive subjects were under consideration or that we had something in train about which we were not ready to make an announcement . |
| 17 | Several times he stopped and listened , thinking that there had been a movement just behind him or just to the side of him , or that something had padded after him on stealthy feet and was standing watching him . |
| 18 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 19 | Some of Harvard 's clients reneged on their agreements to sell when the price climbed , making ridiculous claims , like that the dog had chewed up the allotment letter , or that somebody had sold as a practical joke . |
| 20 | His appeal to the Court of Appeal contained five separate strands , contending that the verdict of the jury was unsafe or unsatisfactory , or that there had been a material irregularity or that there had been a wrong decision on a question of law . |
| 21 | His appeal to the Court of Appeal contained five separate strands , contending that the verdict of the jury was unsafe or unsatisfactory , or that there had been a material irregularity or that there had been a wrong decision on a question of law . |
| 22 | It was not that she was unattractive , or that there had not been offers for her . |
| 23 | Or that she had drunk one glass too many ? |
| 24 | But she pretended to herself that she had not seen it , or that she had misinterpreted it . |
| 25 | Bunny did n't feel it was either the time or the place to mention the half-dozen empty aspirin bottles strewn about the floor of the phone box — their contents were later found heaped like so many loose sweets in the bottom of her handbag — or that she had ‘ popped out ’ in the middle of the scene in Cleopatra 's boudoir . |
| 26 | She had no idea how he knew Kattina was in police custody , or that she had agreed to take over the job . |
| 27 | Many of the protesters , together with much of the black press , attempted to publicise the jogger 's name and to vilify her character , claiming variously that she had never been attacked , that she had been raped by her white boyfriend , or that she had gone to the park in search of sexual adventure . |
| 28 | Conveyancing documents should include a certificate by the purchaser saying either that he had been fully advised by a wholly independent practitioner or that he had declined such advice — and the certificate should contain a prominent ‘ health warning ’ against declining to take it . |
| 29 | Rather than arguing that lineage solidarity demanded their contribution , or that he had decided and his decision bound them , the shaikh pooh-poohed their claim of poverty , and disputed the invalid 's alleged wealth . |
| 30 | It had not been shown that the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself or that he had erred in law or that he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion . |