Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that 's why it went , sucking it up properly I suppose she had it riding up |
| 2 | ‘ Mostly I hoped they had n't . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ They asked about Joanna , and because I did n't know what was going on I said she had been due at the Leisure Centre at 7pm to take her class . |
| 4 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 5 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 6 | So I said I had to make a quick decision either I was going to go up me chain past his whatsit and into the roof , or else go thirty feet down and run right across the chamber into whichever er level they could go to . |
| 7 | So I knew I had to avoid that . |
| 8 | So I mean you had to sort of come up , and grab a breath , and go under the water and try and swim away from it . |
| 9 | And so I mean you had to sort of go up several flights of stairs and you walked in and it , it looked lovely . |
| 10 | So I think we had twelve twelve rock stations er what we called rock stations . |
| 11 | So I explained what had happened . |
| 12 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 13 | So I guess I had no choice in the matter really . |
| 14 | If a relative says something like , ‘ I have n't heard from you for so long I thought you had emigrated ! ’ , what they may really mean is , ‘ I wish you would come and see me more often . ’ |
| 15 | You 've been gone so long I thought someone had run off with you . ’ |
| 16 | Suddenly she realized she had n't put it out properly and said , ‘ Excuse me , Mr Tiller , I think I 'm on fire . ' |
| 17 | Suddenly she realized she had loved these last few months . |
| 18 | Only she said she had brought me here under false pretences and she chose to make amends this way . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps she knew we had proof of her treachery , but there is no need for her to fear our vengeance . ’ |
| 20 | " Perhaps she wishes she had n't said that . " |
| 21 | Standards in areas perhaps you wish you had the time to teach employees yourself . |
| 22 | But perhaps you think I had no right to be . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ No one ever checked up on you , they just trusted you so you felt you had to prove yourself . ’ |
| 24 | So you had you had twelve pennies in one pile and twelve in another and you 're doing twelve add twelve now you could have done counted the whole lot could n't you ? |
| 25 | But he had been drinking , and deep inside she knew he had been partly to blame . |
| 26 | The day she moved in she knew she had been defeated , that love , love for her mother and for her daughter , had defeated her . |
| 27 | From this , the idea was derived of ‘ patchwork pieces ’ , which then led to a demand for specific colours in the bags , ’ ‘ and suddenly we realized we had created a bit of a monster . ’ |
| 28 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 29 | Perhaps they compared what had occurred with elections in the Libyan past , or in other countries , and found their proceedings undignified when measured against an American presidential campaign , or the decorum of a Moscow election . |
| 30 | Perhaps they decided he had nothing useful to say — ; which is n't far from the truth . |