Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [be] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 2 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |
| 3 | He knew nothing of her trip to Bath , and supposed she had only been to visit Liddy . |
| 4 | Christmas Eve brought us the good news that we had also been awarded Phase II of the East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme , known as Great White Tip . |
| 5 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 6 | They had even been giving trouble during the morning and had still not been put right . |
| 7 | It had originally been refused permission by the government on the grounds that commercial exploitation of natural resources in a National Park is illegal . |
| 8 | The specialist reassured him plans were being worked out by his colleagues even as they spoke , and it had all been taken care of . |
| 9 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 10 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 11 | In a radio broadcast on 1 October 1936 , the day he was officially invested as Head of State , Franco hinted at how he envisaged the organization of the as yet non-existent state of whose equally non-existent government he had just been made leader . |
| 12 | He had just been given permission to take a post in West Germany . |
| 13 | Ken , who although he had just been appointed Bishop , was still a Royal Chaplain , remained beside the bed of the dying King for three days and nights , ‘ watching at proper intervals to suggest pious and proper thoughts and ejaculations on so serious an occasion ’ . |
| 14 | The first Vietnamese boat person to commit suicide in Hong Kong died in hospital on Feb. 18 , two days after hanging himself with his belt and four days after he had officially been refused refugee status . |
| 15 | Coun Williams said he had merely been following council policy . |
| 16 | He had recently been appointed Deputy Head in a big , new , comprehensive school in South London , and his evenings were taken up with meetings and an occasional television programme : the comprehensive principle was attracting a lot of public interest and Richard was good at arguing and putting a case , besides looking very handsome on the screen . |