Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [pron] [conj] had " in BNC.

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1 The other day I was telling her about something that had happened , crying as I told the story , and she started crying too .
2 Making no mention of sex , she asked the children to tell her about anything that had happened to them at school which they thought was unfair .
3 How dared he do this to her — how dared he rob her of something that had always been her life 's blood ?
4 In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live .
5 If someone said oh we do n't want two pipes it 's a bit messy , take them out and replace them by one that had the same resistance , that lets the same amount of water through , what would you replace those by ?
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