Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there !
2 I did however , have a shaky start with casting on , but I read the instruction book , back to front and upside down until I had a good idea of what I was doing , resulting in two 4-ply cardigans for my eldest two grand-daughters .
3 I had got my back almost round to the steps by this time but I knew I 'd never get my parka open and the front door key out unless I had an edge .
4 er well last year we brought the Dutch over and we had a competition with them .
5 The check out because we had a go on it and it was quite fun .
6 Disappointed , her confidence evaporating , she tried turning the question round as she had done before : ‘ If you do n't want us to drive back in it , wiggle your finger . ’
7 Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony .
8 The weight of the engine tugged his nose down and he had to keep tugging it up again .
9 Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose .
10 There was nothing distinctive about the black London taxi except that it swooped to pick Rain up when she had not hailed it .
11 He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’
12 ‘ I tried to stay but they said they were paying my contract up and I had no option .
13 'Cos there was an envelope there for you with your name on and it had been ransacked .
14 Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there .
15 to say that we could n't go all er go er tt all go to her house and I was just about to ask Sam if Jenny knew and she put the phone down and she had n't told Jenny .
16 Yeah , picked a rabbit up and we had to chase him , get it out of his mouth .
17 When his caddie had fished the ball out and he had dropped it behind the stream he was facing his fifth shot .
18 So she said yeah alright then like cos sh she have n't had a night out since she had the baby and they got .
19 They left the television on while they had dinner , because Morris wanted to watch a Western .
20 Therefore , the IT in Mr Sen 's case could have allowed his claim in because he had acted on the advice of a member of IT staff .
21 Well I did n't have the heating on after it had gone off at nine o'clock you know .
22 When he finally got her on the phone , she only asked him how he was then said she had to rush , and put the receiver down before he had time to tell her .
23 There was , there was a programme on Channel Four there to I was watching before I picked my book up and they had Conservative Labour bloke and the independent er Liberals and these were supposedly they have on on er Channel Four a a programme called Week in Politics anyway this night , this , tonight they were doing a a fu , they had a floating audience , supposedly a floating audience
24 Within the Common Market , Britain in 1989 seemed as much the odd nation out as it had been in 1979 at the time of the rancorous Dublin summit , unable to prevent major changes within the Community by responding in a negative , bad-tempered way .
25 If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ .
26 His compatriot , Alexandra Ledermann 's Punition , who beat Navet in the Paris World Cup round but who had a difficult flight to Del Mar , looked much more at ease at the official horse inspection here , after a few days ' rest .
27 And anyway I carried him half way along and I had to put him down
28 But he took his cap off and he had grey hair .
29 It was alright at Euston Station on the way up because we had plenty of time for loading — but — on the return journey we could see the train approaching while still careering through the country lanes on our coach .
30 But , in secret , she told her daughters to blow the candle out after she had gone .
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