Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] had [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum had tried some but she 's |
| 2 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 3 | My parents had attended such feasts when thousands , entering in relays , gorged on raw meat , hacked in turn from the bleeding carcases of oxen carried on poles past rows of squatting men . |
| 4 | At last I felt that my expectations had done some good to someone . |
| 5 | Q. Two months ago I noticed one of my Rams had lost all its colour . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew if my keeper had done that he would have been off , too — it 's the law of the land these days . ’ |
| 7 | When an apprentice , after leaving school at thirteen , my father had spent several years as a striker — using a sledgehammer . |
| 8 | I could see in the wing mirror that my arrival had provoked some interest . |
| 9 | This was not the first time my employer had raised such a question ; indeed , it seems to be something which genuinely troubles him . |
| 10 | I could make out the spot where my dad had stood that night . |
| 11 | The nurses seemed overwhelmed , and when I did find one with a moment to spare , she told me my patient had died half an hour earlier . |
| 12 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 13 | Perhaps my mother had received another anonymous letter which she had successfully concealed from me ? |
| 14 | In the end my mother had invited fewer than fifty people . |
| 15 | We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff . |
| 16 | A marriage only needs , can only support , one strong partner , and my mother had claimed that role for herself . |
| 17 | In our main 1979 survey , 11 per cent of credit buyers said that their contracts had included some form of insurance against being unable to pay , while 19 per cent did not know ( Appendix I , Table 35 ) . |
| 18 | Off they hastened , to be told that no living patient in the hospital had the name of Bessie Lee , but a young girl answering her description had died half an hour before . |
| 19 | A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained . |
| 20 | If a band delayed signing a publishing contract until the singles from their album had obtained some success , it was because they believed , not unreasonably , that they could negotiate a better contract by demonstrating their chart success to a publisher . |
| 21 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 22 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
| 23 | Perhaps long exposure to tennis , bad public transport , English weather and the sight of miserable middle-aged people walking their dogs had driven this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis right round the bend . |
| 24 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
| 25 | Amy had gone into some detail as to how her husband had effected that state of affairs but beyond that , prevented partly by her inexperience , partly by her natural reserve and partly , indeed , by the barrier which Amy 's misery put up , Theodora had not penetrated . |
| 26 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |
| 27 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 28 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , one of their licencees had requested this and , since it was a lucrative contract , Bernard had told him to go ahead and produce it . |
| 30 | Reform , the young protesters stressed , was good but should be extended into the political sphere , as their predecessors had demanded many times before . |