Example sentences of "[noun] that [pers pn] [vb past] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 2 | For a while they just stood there , staring down at the boar , satisfying their curiosity after the brief and distant glimpses that they 'd had on the hunt . |
| 3 | They came to the pub that he 'd had in mind and climbed the steps to the door . |
| 4 | All the things that you 'd had during the Strike , but things did get left , and er tradesmen were very considerate , there was no chasing for m hard for money and er I know we had an insurance that was n't paid and we used the book to have an imaginary shilling on a horse each day . |
| 5 | Well , Charles immediately set up the kind of court that he 'd had in London as far as he could , with a very set routine . |
| 6 | These aimed to elicit individual views about fundholding and details of the impact that it had had on their roles . |
| 7 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 8 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 9 | On 4 August , at the very moment that an important battle was raging near Somosierra north of Madrid , Nizan reported a conversation that he had had with President Azana which had left an indelible impression in his mind : The President pointed to the smoke rising from the distant peaks of the sierra . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not really stiff at all , ’ he said , putting his ski boot into a plate of gelantine that he had had in bed for dinner last night . |
| 11 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 12 | His problems in composing this lecture were no doubt compounded by the fact that he had had in the past expressed no great liking for Goethe 's poetry — " I ca n't stand his stuff , " he had once told Ronald Duncan — and in any case he now found public addresses a complete waste of time.Immediately on his return from Germany , he travelled to the United States for a visit of two months . |