Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doors of the bar opened behind them and they went in to order hot chocolate from the rather older part-time student who had learned the advisability of doing something to earn a little money and had taken several jobs as a waitress . |
| 2 | Oh I had a look at that Sierra that had a front-ender . |
| 3 | The road gang had turned up unexpectedly that afternoon and had laid and rolled more than two hundred yards of hot tarmac from the main building all the way around to the other side of the restaurant block ; now the place did n't look quite so much like a building site any more , and winter opening seemed more of a possibility . |
| 4 | Franco 's failure to assist them undoubtedly contributed to that result and had been calculated in political rather than exclusively military terms . |
| 5 | He kept babbling then about some fiend that had taken possession of him . |
| 6 | Dave had foreseen some difficulty and had moved back left to get into a better position to assist Steve , just below him . |
| 7 | Von Schlieffen had applied his fertile brain to this eventuality and had stipulated that , since any advancing Russian armies must inevitably become divided by the lakes , first one , then the other , was to be attacked by the full weight of German forces in East Prussia . |
| 8 | He had a grey fringe round back and sides , although a few wisps that had once been fair or ginger were combed over the top . |
| 9 | Some of the nomes scouted around the sheds and came back with a few vegetables that had been missed , but it was a pitifully small amount . |
| 10 | ( Carothers had thought of investigating this route but had eventually concentrated on his polyamides . ) |
| 11 | Gran had been refused a bank loan for new guttering — because of her age , she opined huffily — so had decided to sell off some possessions that had come to her from her mother . |
| 12 | I waited around a few minutes and had a chance to talk with Tony Dorigo and met his mother who works in the Digital office in Birmingham . |
| 13 | Cranks was another revue that had become a sort of watchword for the kind of show this was . |
| 14 | He had murmured some excuse but had been unable to refuse an invitation to supper at the vicarage during the coming week . |
| 15 | Marion was born in this cottage and had long become used to the passage of trains and shunting movements in the adjacent sidings . |
| 16 | It had been too far in the future for either of them to contemplate during the whirlwind few hours that had led to their arrival . |
| 17 | Resuming at the short fourth hole , he promptly took a double bogey five , leaving a bunker shot in the sand , and then following it with a six at the fifth , where he hooked into some bushes and had to go back to the tee . |
| 18 | Here , the District had few branches and had failed in its bid to secure funding for its own tutor-organiser . |
| 19 | Because he had already lost some weight and had been found to be anaemic the dietician was consulted to ensure that he received adequate nourishment . |
| 20 | The song contained few words and had a different lyrical slant than most of his material . |
| 21 | She left after a few months and had a home tutor . |
| 22 | This group has been set up within the past few months and had the task of re-organising the Covenant . |
| 23 | He fell off some scaffolding and had to be taken to the studio surgery . |
| 24 | The Roller , however , had developed some fault and had been left in the hands of the Grand Hotel 's garage mechanic . |
| 25 | How she loathed this web that had been spun so swiftly round her . |
| 26 | He glanced out at a gang of starlings fighting over some breadcrumbs that had been tossed on the lawn . |
| 27 | ‘ So I bought a few chisels and some wood and had a go . |
| 28 | She was gesturing about something now , some issue that had excited her , dolphins probably , and as she waved her arms Donald gave her an admiring smile . |
| 29 | There was another pleasant surprise — Hayling and Lowe had actually done some work and had something on paper . |
| 30 | He added that during the repair process Mr Hall had been told he could exchange the Rolls for another vehicle but had refused . |