Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've told you ; I knew nothing about what had happened until I was at work next morning and one of your policemen came with the news . ’ |
| 2 | She just heard footsteps behind her , looked around , and there he was , standing behind her for all the world as though nothing between them had changed . |
| 3 | By the time she reached the hut her hair had turned white and she had gone dumb with grieving , so she could tell her husband nothing of what had happened . |
| 4 | First , Matthew 's secretary , the girl who works in the office next door , turned up for work as usual this morning ; she lives a few miles out and she knew nothing of what had happened . ’ |
| 5 | No , he knew nothing of who had salvaged Saint Winifred . |
| 6 | She knew she had to tell somebody about what had happened with the glass . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing like it had happened before , nothing like it has happened since , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ Nothing like it had happened before , nothing like it has happened since . |
| 9 | In Øster 's study no preputial adhesions were seen in 95 boys aged 17 , none of whom had undergone any operative procedure for separation of adhesions — strongly suggesting that adhesions resolve spontaneously without treatment . |
| 10 | Damage to the thyroid was permanent and thyroid ultrasonography ( in 3 patients , none of whom had undergone ABMT ) showed hypoplastic glands . |
| 11 | The Kaluga committee included three one-time Decembrists and a member of the Petrashevskii circle , none of whom had abjured the political opinions of his youth . |
| 12 | The subjects were 40 drivers , 14 male , 26 female , all members of the Applied Psychology Unit 's subject panel , none of whom had taken part in any of the previous experiments from this series . |
| 13 | There were five dams built , none of which had to undergo frequent repairs , and the total expenditure incurred by the project up to the end of 1987 was $1.4 billion , not $14 billion as the article asserts . |
| 14 | No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them . |
| 15 | They had n't wanted to , very much ; the little mining town was desolate and ugly and the only hotel smelled of stale beer and greasy chips , but Carrie had looked so different suddenly , so happy and ironed-out and eager , that none of them had said so . |
| 16 | Goodness , I must be in a state of trauma to have forgotten that none of them had drunk either at lunch-time or in the afternoon . ’ |
| 17 | None of them had seen anything quite like this before . |
| 18 | Unsurprisingly , none of them had heard of Giles Williams , which was clearly a false name , and Kelly 's description of his telephone manner — a slurred , gin-sodden voice with a wheedling insincere tone to it — covered half of what used to be known as Fleet Street . |
| 19 | None of them had heard about the recall . |
| 20 | This time it was a song none of them had heard before . |
| 21 | He had had three treasurers of England already , good men every one , and two treasurers of his own household , and none of them had made ends meet yet . |
| 22 | None of them had changed . |
| 23 | I once had a humble role in one of his features : I played myself as enthusiastic musicologist , introducing a rare recordings of famous cellists performing various juicy bits ( none of them had bothered to play it all ) out of a stylistically promiscuous Cello Sonata by a rightly-obscure Swiss genius never existed ; the cellists ( who ranged from ‘ Beatrice Harrison ’ , complete with atrocious surface-noise and garden crow effects , to ‘ Yo Yo Ma ’ ) were graphically impersonated by Moray Welsh ; the ‘ Sonata ’ excerpts themselves , fondly murdering many turn-of-the-century composers and idioms , were of course all Ben 's own work . |
| 24 | As actors , they were all used to people looking different off-screen , but none of them had expected him to be so tall . |
| 25 | She was now all amiability — a quality none of them had looked to discover in her . |
| 26 | Overall , when the children on the course were compared to those in the control groups , it was found that none of them had taken up smoking and some who had been using snuff before the start of the programme had now given up . |
| 27 | Although not all women were aware of the consequences of having paid reduced contributions , none of them had anticipated being made redundant . |
| 28 | They had tried out various ‘ templates ’ — all of them embellishments on what already existed — but none of them had shown the kind of delicacy required . |
| 29 | The loss of her family , the futile years of servitude , even Edmund 's death — none of it had hurt like this . |
| 30 | Now , I believe it to be true that before this tour — with one exception — none of you had known each other . |