Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh pn] had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was quite enough for someone who had just admitted to disliking exchanges of confidence except to his intimates . |
| 2 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |
| 3 | Poole , as one who had already thought of emigrating to America , listened sympathetically ; but he saw at once that the scheme could never succeed , remarking to a friend that however perfectible human nature might be , it was ‘ not yet perfect enough ’ for Pantisocracy . |
| 4 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 5 | No one who had ever struggled in the mire as she had , could fail to understand . |
| 6 | Yesterday , Lord Justice Slade , sitting with Lord Justice Mann and Sir David Croom-Johnson , said Mrs Luxmoore-May deserved sympathy , as did anyone who had unwittingly parted with a ‘ sleeper ’ — an item of hitherto unrecognised value . |