Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 He swung it to the extra-cover boundary and Sabina Park , where everyone had been generous in Test defeat , could not have celebrated more had the World Cup been won .
2 They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out .
3 What would really terrify him would be to take to an experienced orchestra a Rachmaninov symphony , or well-known works , where everyone had expectations of a fresh miracle .
4 Or someone had .
5 Something or someone had annoyed him and instantly she assumed it was because he was landed with her here in his house .
6 And a call came over the radio that there was a problem with one of the pumps downstairs , so seeing I had nothing better to do at that time I went downstairs to give them a hand .
7 I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place .
8 The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before .
9 Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants .
10 There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening .
11 My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days .
12 At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night .
13 ‘ I SAT where I had sat before , and the same bliss entered me .
14 As for myself , I was back where I had begun in Opposition .
15 There is an unutterable sadness around Medina del Campo , where I had to change trains for Salamanca .
16 I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started .
17 I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties .
18 We all went to the carol service in Bath Abbey , where I had difficulty restraining my tears .
19 It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy .
20 Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar .
21 I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt .
22 Between Belturbet and Cavan Town ( where I had been before ) , Lough Erne fragmented into a series of lakes , with strange names such as Lough Parisee .
23 Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger .
24 I was very glad that my acquaintances escorted me to the Metro , with instructions to change at Dentfert-Rochereau for the Cité Universitaire , where I had managed to book a room in the Pavillon Franco-Britannique .
25 In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God .
26 I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye .
27 The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age .
28 I made my way to a cottage near the church , where I had been told I could expect a night 's lodging .
29 The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed .
30 The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion .
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