Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [coord] had " in BNC.

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1 The bastard smiled evilly at me as if he would have loved to have put a noose round my neck and had me swinging on a branch of the overhanging elm tree .
2 ‘ Just as soon as I 've finished my tea and had a bath . ’
3 ‘ I bought it just after passing my test and had a little drive before realising , to my horror , that I could n't park it .
4 He had whilst I was lying intoxicated on my bed in my quarter had oral sex , had masturbated over my body and had entered my vagina for about 10 seconds .
5 Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission .
6 Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them .
7 I discovered spit on my lapel and had abuse hurled at me by followers and supporters of the hunt and was cursed by the hunters .
8 I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before .
9 Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit .
10 ‘ Apart from a few pieces of glass and steel which had been gifts from my family and had sentimental value , I let her run riot among my other acquisitions .
11 In Good she played the hero 's senile , wheelchair-bound elderly mother ( ‘ I had nothing on my face and had to use a toilet on stage ’ ) , shrieking asperities at her hapless son as he wrestled with the temptations of Nazism .
12 The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment .
13 There was the room with the twelve iron beds in it , the nice girls , the terrible girls , the time they all got nits in their hair and had their heads shaved .
14 While this latter disqualification had not prevented the marriage of the Duke d'Orléans , son of Louis-Philippe , with Helen of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , it had in practice proved to be inconvenient , as the duchess did not change her faith and had been accused of pushing ‘ the Protestant interest ’ .
15 The coffin had reached its resting-place and had landed , without disgracing itself , on the catafalque awaiting it .
16 The stove was the delight of her heart and had been built especially by a friend of her late husband 's to fit neatly into the end of her tiny home .
17 She began to landscape the fantasy garden in her mind and had soon forgotten about the slight ache in her hips that came from having her legs curled to one side , and the uncomfortable weave of the wickerwork pressing into the soft skin on the underside of her forearms .
18 Many schools declined to take part in the survey , however , for a variety of reasons : pressure of work , involvement in too many recent research projects and in some cases because , despite the LEA schedule , they had either not yet started on their review or had made only minimal progress .
19 In an instant he had vaulted over the side of their car and had begun swinging himself along towards the head of the train and the car occupied by Lord Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan .
20 He did The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover and had a laugh trying to get Peter Greenaway to loosen up .
21 The woman , who has not yet been named but is aged about 50 , was trapped in her car and had to be freed by firemen before being taken to hospital with back and neck injuries .
22 The generator which tried to make it to Low Birk Hatt Farm , to provide camera lights , turned over on its side and had to be hauled out by tractor .
23 ‘ She said to me that the partners in the firm couldna decide what to give the lass for her wedding and had asked her , as wife of the senior partner , to have a wee word .
24 By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister .
25 It was worse for them because they had kept their child and had time to form a bond with it . ’
26 ‘ It leaves a hell of a hangover , ’ said Mrs Ridley , and Lee felt relieved as if she had been ashamed of her suffering and had had it authenticated at last .
27 The State prosector had demanded heavier sentences but the court judged that the two had not carried out their plan but had only discussed it .
28 Newcastle 's natural nervousness soon reasserted itself for the French had clearly not abandoned their plan and had even managed to bring the transports at Nantes , on the River Loire , to join those further up the coast at Vannes in the Gulf of Morbihan , about midway between St Nazaire and Lorient .
29 She had smiled uncertainly at Isabel and had started to say something , but then Simon had put his arm around her waist and had led her away , his head bent over her fair one , his expression tender .
30 Willis said it had not ‘ adjusted ’ its stake and had ‘ talked to no one about it ’ .
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