Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 4 | As she was still naked , Rex had no idea where she had produced it from . |
| 5 | He was silent , as she carefully replaced his sleeping member where she had got it from , and buttoned his fly . |
| 6 | You either got tuck boxes from home or you had to supplement it with your own earnings , which , ten shillings a week . |
| 7 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
| 8 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 9 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 10 | In Bamburgh castle , where they had carried him from Wooler as soon as he was fit to be moved , the earl of Douglas took his ease in a very light and illustrious captivity . |
| 11 | He had a soft face and a long white beard with red , yellow and blue bits at the end where he had dipped it in strange chemicals by mistake . |
| 12 | Apart from the light from Craig 's torch , still propped where he had left it against the main power conduits , the chamber was dark and empty . |
| 13 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 14 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 15 | ‘ I was under the impression that I had explained it to you . |
| 16 | The very existence of the flood — the fact that I had invited it into my awareness — showed that I had emotional ‘ work ’ to do . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 18 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 19 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 20 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 21 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 22 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 23 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 24 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 25 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 26 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 27 | I knew that I had to protect myself from another pounding — if I let him into my heart I would be done for . |
| 28 | All I knew , in the heat of that moment , was that I had to protect you from me , had to take heed of that barely grasped truth that I could n't perhaps take your virginity and then just walk away . ’ |
| 29 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 30 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |