Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | There I finally decided to throw in my efforts at making contact with the Delhi eunuchs ; it was taking up a lot of time and there was still no hint of a breakthrough : after ten days I still knew as little about them as I had when I had begun . |
| 2 | I now say : that to talk about perceived-as appearances , and to talk about what , on looking at things , listening to them , and so on , we would believe about them if we had no reason to think otherwise , are to talk about one and the same thing . |
| 3 | She kept on and on about them until he had no option but to brake hard , and with a great deal of difficulty in that narrow lane , turn the vehicle around and go back . |
| 4 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 5 | There were cases of families being made to leave by conditions being rendered difficult for them after they had made complaints to the corporation housing department . |
| 6 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 7 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 8 | It was worse for them because they had kept their child and had time to form a bond with it . ’ |
| 9 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 10 | Perhaps it would have been better for them if they had gone straight to hostels or agricultural training camps . |
| 11 | It was decided it would be too traumatic for them if they had to be flown away again afterwards . |
| 12 | Well there is n't anything for them if they had n't gone . |
| 13 | It was there for them as it had always been . |
| 14 | She said it had prompted more real conversation between them than she had achieved in all their previous encounters . |
| 15 | Yet again the business of running the hotel had come between them when they had something important to sort out . |
| 16 | There always had been these moments between them when she had to give way , against reason , against sense : he simply had to win . |
| 17 | There would hardly have been harmony between them if they had the same desires , if their interests coincided , if they were a threat to each other . |
| 18 | It was just like last night again , when the mood had changed between them and she had left to go to bed , filled with regrets . |
| 19 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 20 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 21 | ‘ And let her know that you cared so little for me that you had to be reminded ? |
| 22 | It was good of you to come at such short notice and lucky for me that you had no date for this evening , as you so easily might have done . ’ |
| 23 | He oiled it , pumped up the tyres and held it for me while I had a go , just in the yard at first . |
| 24 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 25 | They began with Haydn 's Cello Concerto , which was a pleasant surprise for me as I had heard the piece only a week or two before at a concert of Mozart and Haydn 's music featuring Camerata and had liked the piece very much . |
| 26 | she 's quite good and she said well you 're intelligent , you can do this for me and she had me doing this like phone calls ringing people up and |
| 27 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 28 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 29 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 30 | In fact , things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl , Jane Wilde . |