Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | starting just past the river and continuing farther than the places I had names for or had ever seen . |
| 2 | I had a poster done out and had it outside the town hall . |
| 3 | ‘ She develops this grandiose theory of herself as being important , and makes Truth Or Dare which I saw a couple of minutes of but had to stop watching because it was so unpleasant and embarrassing and awful . |
| 4 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 5 | George Oaks had been cared for and had work provided , first by his parents and later , by his elder brother . |
| 6 | It is true that not every subject or application yielded work we thought matched the excellence we hoped for and had already found in some areas . |
| 7 | But I think the ingenuity of chemists and scientists and physicists and astronomers is such that , yes , we could do it — if we knew what we were looking for and had the right ideas . |
| 8 | 11 And saw heaven opened , and a certain vessel descending unto him , as if had been a great sheet knit at the four comers , and let down to the earth . |
| 9 | And he seemed as if had been here when I was down the road |
| 10 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |
| 11 | er and Sharon never alt er cancelled that , well they come out and they said they 'd had Chinese flu so when I went into and had me chest done , I says I 've got the flu like , she says yeah she said I says I , I know , I said they 've got that Chinese flu she 's be |
| 12 | This then was the paradox Neela grew up with and had to learn to grow out of . |
| 13 | It was all done with and had ended how things always seemed to end for her . |
| 14 | The Northern Echo is happy to make it clear that the issue had been investigated and dealt with and had not been ‘ dropped . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ During those years ’ , says Wilcock , ‘ I felt closer to Richard , in his feelings about life , news , his sense of playfulness , his serious concern about issues which had to be dealt with but had to be entertaining . ’ |
| 16 | According to Pryce in 1778 , longer shifts had been experimented with but had been found less productive . |
| 17 | Not hers but his and the lovely woman he lived with but had no intention of marrying — yet , that was . |
| 18 | " Now let me see myself in a glass , " Sara said eventually , and when one was brought gave a gasp of surprise , because she had not worn the high collar before or had her hair braided , and although these strange garments were a little uncomfortable and restricting she could n't help admiring the slashed sleeves , the low , square neck and the wonderful wide skirt that swept the stone floor . |
| 19 | Over 80 per cent of cases in one series were either suffering from or had suffered from other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 20 | Many Andersonstown people originated from or had family ties with the Falls Road , the area where the Clonard is located ; the Braniel population on the other hand are East Belfast people , many of whom have ties with the Newtownards Road where Ballymacarrett is located ( see map 4.1 ) . |
| 21 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 22 | He wielded it self-consciously , as though he had never owned one before and had just bought it in a Harrods sale . |
| 23 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 24 | The tug-master had never , of course , towed a large sailing vessel before and had no experience of the windward effect of three tall masts in a gale . |
| 25 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 26 | But still she could not use it until she spent an accumulation of 2 ½ years filling out Ridiculous Redundant Forms from the Grand Canyon 's Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department , spent $4,967 in stamps mailing the forms in and had to get a skin graph on her tongue from licking stamps . |
| 27 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 28 | That uncertainty , acknowledged by Watkins L.J. , should , it is submitted , have provided a powerful reason for the Court of Appeal to allow the applicant to have a judgment by the court on the unresolved points , particularly as they had been previously argued before but had been unanswered by the court . |
| 29 | I have not succeeded in finding a clear-cut English instance [ excluding Swift ] in which a satirist , on an economic issue , was attacking a social group clearly higher than the one he belonged to or had been hired to serve . |
| 30 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |