Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] was " 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 | The man she 'd dreamed of was strong , just as Adam was strong , but he was compassionate too , and full of gentle humour . |
| 3 | If the woman she 'd spoken to was having a break , she would n't be back to her desk before two o'clock . |
| 4 | Given that its hero 's fatal handicap was the size of his nose , it seemed to me most tactless that there should be a ‘ pneumological ’ institute named after him in Cambo , when the last thing he can have suffered from was breathing problems . |
| 5 | One thing he could have done without was an ambitious young investigating magistrate with a strong political bias , a prefabricated conspiracy theory and an itch to get his name in the news . |
| 6 | What she could not have thought of was this sort of permanent liaison , almost a marriage . |
| 7 | And one aspect of his character she ought to have guessed at was his total loyalty to family . |
| 8 | The one that I would really like to have got onto was the , the building h the hous housing committee . |
| 9 | In the case of Sgt Soles , the Department said that Mrs Marsden 's inquiry had resulted in the discovery that his widow , who had remarried by was now very ill , was entitled to have her widow 's pension reinstated under new legislation and this had now been done . |
| 10 | The last thing he had wished for was to hurt the old man , but it could not be helped . |
| 11 | What ‘ sociological punch ’ had amounted to was that actors could still make films work . |
| 12 | The anger she had felt before was a pale moth of a feeling compared with the new anger that came now . |
| 13 | Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing . |
| 14 | Although Stockholm was the base for spies of every warring nation , the Scandinavian connection that Foley had talked about was run by Norway , whose government-in-exile had set up in the neutral city . |
| 15 | All they had led to was the squalor and isolation of this room they kept her in , and the one beyond , and the yard outside they sometimes let her walk in , and the empty hillside , and the whitewashed wall of the barn against which she had stood to be photographed , clutching the International Herald Tribune for 4 September . |
| 16 | When she had decided to go after a job with children , the best she had hoped for was a mother's-help place ; she was n't trained as a nanny or anything like that . |
| 17 | The most she had hoped for was a shedding of the burden of guilt she had carried , and Luke 's understanding . |
| 18 | And if much that was done in those early days shocks us , we have to remember what had gone before was worse . |
| 19 | The death of the former war hero came less than two months before the federated Czechoslovakia he had believed in was to split . |
| 20 | Controlling and reproducing the cell was , it seemed , all about controlling and reproducing information ; and what distinguished the molecules that embodied this new idea , proteins , DNA and RNA , from the much more boring small molecules that until then biochemists had worked with was that these giant molecules seemed to embody information ; they were , it appeared , informational macromolecules . |
| 21 | Erm at that time erm we did erm report at some length on the question of fostering and exactly what the commissioner 's asked for was the burden of the advice that we gave . |