Example sentences of "had [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had them brace the back of a human chain |
| 2 | And that was er under John John was the manager and er I tell you Scott come and he started swearing at me and I says , I did n't m ask you for your bloody job , so next er next morning when they goes , he they had they had me walking the rope . |
| 3 | What right had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family ? |
| 4 | As far as I was concerned , men and boys constituted a separate species , with whom I had nothing in common , and the last thing I wanted to do ( had I given the matter any thought ) was to arouse their interest , which I feared might be predatory . |
| 5 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 6 | Was I hearing him right or had I missed the point as so often happened ? |
| 7 | Only once had I feared the heat of Egypt and that had been in a waking dream . |
| 8 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 9 | Had I found the market ? |
| 10 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 11 | ‘ Had I continued the action you would have been even more willing by now . ’ |
| 12 | Nor had I forgotten the swivel-gun mounted on the roof . |
| 13 | Had I read the brochure carefully I would have realised that the experience I was heading for was anything but tedious ! |
| 14 | Or had someone planted the idea in Alexander 's mind ? |
| 15 | Acute disappointment had her dropping the phone without even acknowledging his last explanation . |
| 16 | Riley swore and Linley drawled that there was nothing to get upset about , because Harbury had himself cleared the way for the man Riley wanted appointed . |
| 17 | Origen had himself felt the difficulty . |
| 18 | We see his professional disdain : before he arrived he spoke disparagingly of his impending host , doubting that Mr MacAulay had himself authored the history of the island of St Kilda , which bore his name . |
| 19 | ( My ex-husband did not want me working in Oman with him , and even when I was in the UK arranging the divorce he took steps to prevent me returning to Oman to teach until he had himself left the country in 1987 . ) |
| 20 | He was admitted on 6 May , and remained in the care of Dr William Battie , a distinguished physician and a Cambridge graduate who had himself held the scholarship which Smart held after him . |
| 21 | He came to Ascot fresh from a victory under nine stone in the Manchester Cup , and would have the benefit of a pacemaker , St Denis — who had himself won the Princess of Wales 's Stakes and run third to St Amant in the 1904 Derby . |
| 22 | Kwame Nkrumah , who had himself used the press to mobilize support for his party and its nationalist demands against the British , developed strong views about the role of the media in the post-colonial period : |
| 23 | During the previous year , Crawford had himself learned the art of flying , near his new Bedfordshire home , in just seven weeks . |
| 24 | First of all , clerical taxation in the 1290s was to be based on the new and higher valuation of their livings made for the purpose initially of papal taxation in 1291 ; this assessment replaced that of 1276 which had itself supplanted the valor of 1254 . |
| 25 | Before the Act the courts would not interfere with any decision by a local authority relating to a child in its care under statutory authority unless the local authority had itself brought the matter before the court , or the facts were such as to entitle the local authority 's decision to be challenged by way of judicial review : A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 , 373 , per Lord Wilberforce . |
| 26 | She had so much going for her , why had she felt the urge to destroy herself ? |
| 27 | Sadly , her thoughts of a good omen continued to prove false , because no sooner had she raised the knocker than the door was wrenched open , and a young woman emerged backwards , still talking to someone inside the house . |
| 28 | Had she imagined the violence of the previous months ? |
| 29 | Had she heard the name , recognized her even ? |
| 30 | Where had she heard the rhyme ? |