Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 2 | I mean the other morning I looked down and somebody had thrown up in the street |
| 3 | It was still there when I took Jackie 's parcel to her and it wa I , I think I did n't look out the , the window till about five o'clock and it had gone then . |
| 4 | I think he had a little corner in his heart for me but if we had got together and he had gone off with someone else I could n't have stood the hurt and humiliation . |
| 5 | Within a year they were living together and he had sold his factory to devote more time to the rather more demanding business of keeping Aunt Ilsa company on her peregrinations ; they had been on the move more or less ever since . |
| 6 | But still , we did have several holidays together and I had assumed that one day we would get married . |
| 7 | Jock Lennox found the harmonium in the choir balcony right away and he had caused something of a furore even before the Mass had started that Sunday morning . |
| 8 | One of his feet had been blown away and he had lost a lot of blood from a wide crack in his shell . |
| 9 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 10 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 11 | One Saturday at about 3 o'clock when the 2.47 had not long gone through and he had put the ‘ line clear ’ through , he was standing at the window and saw the lad . |
| 12 | But in that moment , the fight was over and we had won . |
| 13 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
| 14 | The meal was almost over and I had downed at least four deep-bowled cups of claret when the small red stain appeared on the table cloth . |
| 15 | Thackeray had been told of the death and of the anatomical examination after it was all over and he had spoken ‘ with warmth and sharpness ’ to Mr. Leech . |
| 16 | Panama seemed to many like a re-enactment of Hawaiian history : the States had needed a reason to take over and it had found one . |
| 17 | Then when we finished and come out we er there was such a commotion in the street while we were in there taking aircraft spotting a , a German aircraft had come over and it had dropped a bomb on the gasworks had the plane , and we had known nothing about it . |
| 18 | It was over and she had done it . |
| 19 | André asked , once they were outside and he had started the car . |
| 20 | As the older generations who had kept up the tradition passed away , there were not so many young people in the village to carry it on and they had left to find employment and housing in the towns . |
| 21 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 22 | The scratches on his cheek had healed quickly and he had died unblemished . |
| 23 | Sally had chided when the taxi had dropped Harriet off and she had bundled unceremoniously into the house . |
| 24 | Now , there were two days on which the only race meeting were in the north ; Kelly had asked Bill for time off and he had agreed . |
| 25 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said Cocker had taken Wild and Coulton into his godfather 's home and they had taken his wallet . |
| 26 | ‘ We could not move back home and we had reached the end of Palestine . ’ |
| 27 | A good night out for me would be one where I got home and nobody had played any tricks on me . |
| 28 | Yet later that evening , when they had both returned home and he had enquired about her meeting with Alison and whether she had bought a pram , she had hesitated before admitting she had actually been to a cinema . |
| 29 | He looked at his watch , suddenly remembering his mother would be home and he had done nothing about supper . |
| 30 | It was nice , however , to walk through the front door and retire to my bed , I was home and I had survived . |