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

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1	well we went on a course , for a week up Newcastle and of course er erm we had to be there for nine o'clock so we had to catch the bus , at the latest half past eight so you 're up at you 're up at seven and you get showered and what have you cos there 's a shower in the be bedroom get yourself all ready so you 're down by about erm half seven , quarter to eight , like so you tend to think quarter of an hour to the erm bus stop which is right outside the door of the hotel we were getting so and we use the bus rather than take the car in daily , cos it 's easier so I and er and of course I sat down and had a breakfast and I thoroughly enjo , I did n't have any cereals you know , I says well er and I had a little bit of orange orange juice , but it was this erm made up orange juice
2	The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) .
3	On her return the mother had screamed aloud that he had killed the child .
4	Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question .
5	Nine ladies dancing he decided perhaps that she had ordered the extra milk in case they got thirsty .
6	And dear old Sambo had provided more amusement by purloining the turkey , so that they had to eat the bread-sauce and chestnut stuffing without their raison d'être !
7	Then there was some talk of placing portions in various magazines , so that you had to buy the lot in order to read the book .
8	Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up .
9	I do n't think it could have worked out better if we had written the ending ourselves .
10	He once lost £80,000 when a tour of Japan was cancelled suddenly and he had to pay the cost of transporting the show 's equipment back to Britain out of his own pocket .
11	Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her .
12	And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think .
13	No AE was permitted to sit down until he had given the manager a form for a bike ( so a courier could collect the client 's cheque ) , or for a TT ( telegraphic transfer from the -client 's bank to DPR 's ) , or for Red Star ( British Rail delivery : this was a comparatively slow method of payment .
14	The Bogsiders felt that they had won — not only because they had kept the RUC out of their area but because they had forced the British Army to intervene .
15	He had taken an instant dislike to both Bodie and Doyle , not only because they had bungled the surveillance job on the van containing his potential assassins , but because they dressed casually , more suited to a Sunday afternoon jog than the serious business of the Secret Service .
16	He said it only because he had forgotten the name she had told him , but the delicious little gurgle of laughter she gave coincided so precisely with another crackle of thunder that it seemed suddenly apt .
17	The Prince galloped past the deserted Gemioncourt farm , through a bivouacked Dutch brigade , and did not rein in till he had passed the forward Dutch picquets and could see clear down the paved highway into the village of Frasnes .
18	She said this last doubtfully because she had seen the School as recently as Jarvis had and could not imagine any ‘ civilized people ’ renting it .
19	Radio Lumière was forcibly closed down after it had reported the massacre of 40 peasants by the army in the village of Carrefour , south west of Port-au-Prince .
20	Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country .
21	The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names .
22	Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) .
23	If these trajectories were viewed only after they had reached the attractor , they would illustrate the attractors : the sink as a point in phase space , and the limit cycle attractor as a single closed loop in phase space .
24	It was only after they had offloaded the stock that the dealers would find out their teamleader had bought up large quantities of it himself .
25	I did as she said but they were two sizes too big for me ; they fitted better after she had packed the toes with scraps of wool .
26	I heard of people with only one kidney and enquired eagerly whether they had lost the other through cancer .
27	Not long after we had reached the Old parsonage and climbed the stairs to Michael 's rooms , Father D'Arcy arrived .
28	This concept did not become clear in Darwin 's mind until long after he had left the Galapagos .
29	He steered his way round these words much as he had negotiated the deck .
30	She enjoyed its lack of significance , much as she had enjoyed the bleak and dirty corridors of Battersby Grammar School when she was eleven years old .