Example sentences of "[coord] had [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company . |
| 2 | Had he imagined it , or had Chung Hu-yan come to him only an hour back with news of another attack ? |
| 3 | During their stay on the plantation more than a hundred coolies in Village Number Three had died of fever and malnutrition , or had committed suicide but there had never been a death among their immediate neighbours . |
| 4 | As a private registry it was available only to the trading partners , and not to third parties interested in knowing whether a given shipment was sold , pledged , or had taken place . |
| 5 | None was receiving antibiotics or had taken acid inhibitory agents within the previous week . |
| 6 | The remainder were either on Youth Opportunity schemes , the dole , or had re-entered education . |
| 7 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 8 | As approved , the bill would give Soviet citizens the automatic right to obtain a passport within one month of application , unless the applicant was involved in criminal proceedings , was liable for military service , or had had access to state secrets in the previous five years . |
| 9 | Having concentrated so far on administration and CIA involvement , Walsh declared that the final stages of his investigation would focus on other agencies which either collaborated in , or had detailed knowledge of , the Reagan administration 's secret arms sales to Iran or its covert resupply network for the contras . |
| 10 | In one study of a small group of wrist-slashers it was found that more than half were well , or had shown improvement , 5–6 years later ( Nelson and Grunebaum 1971 ) . |
| 11 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 12 | Most other independent radio stations had either had their equipment destroyed or had broadcast music programmes and other safe material . |
| 13 | Rostov saw that none of the leaves which had fallen were withered or had changed colour , and the ground below every tree was covered by a soft carpet which was perhaps a metre thick . |
| 14 | Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man . |
| 15 | She had a divinity degree from London University and had completed part of a law course at Lagos University when she was admitted to the faculty in 1983 as an entrant preparing to sit her bar exams . |
| 16 | The negotiations , which had reached their seventh round and had given rise to considerable optimism , centred on the creation of internationally managed reception centres in Vietnam . |
| 17 | In the time of Henry VII he had stripped the whole of Fife of oak and fir trees in order to build a huge man-of-war , the Great St Michael , and had given hospitality to the impostor Perkin Warbeck as son of Edward IV and therefore rightful king of England . |
| 18 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 19 | Annie was broad-hipped and had given birth to overweight babies with no difficulty . |
| 20 | One of the photographs had been published in US newspapers in July and had increased speculation over the fate of MIAs in Indo-China [ see p.38344 ] . |
| 21 | Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem and had reached Jericho . |
| 22 | The reason for excluding the Schutzkorps from repatriation must have been that , although it included a number of Soviet citizens who had joined during the war , a large majority of its members had lived outside Russia since the Civil War and had become passport holders of other countries , mainly Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | In the last ten years she had also been a magistrate , and had become chairman of the Committee of Magistrates . |
| 24 | Carter and Reagan , by contrast , had come into politics relatively late in life , had no prior experience of national politics and had become party leaders after long and expensive electoral campaigns . |
| 25 | This route which had formerly run from London Bridge to Tooting Junction , had been divided when route 30 was converted to trolleybuses and had become tram route 12 London Bridge — Battersea — Wandsworth and trolleybus route 612 Battersea — Wandsworth — Tooting — Mitcham . |
| 26 | It exposed the moral dangers of the mechanistic philosophy that had begun with Bacon and had fuelled humankind 's drive for dominance over Nature . |
| 27 | He was by now a very powerful man and had created jealousy and resentment . |
| 28 | Even in the controversial areas of defence and foreign policy there was little difference , since the National Party had performed an unexpected and unlikely volte face earlier in the year and had adopted Labour 's anti-nuclear policy which banned nuclear warships from New Zealand ports . |
| 29 | Richard , as second son , had been promised Aquitaine by his mother and had done homage to Louis VII of France . |
| 30 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |