Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court adjudged that , having requested access to a lawyer , a suspect could not then be questioned without the presence of a lawyer , even if he or she had already conferred with the lawyer . |
| 2 | ‘ When he came back he said he was going to make more money than he or she had ever dreamed of . |
| 3 | Either the Führer 's statement , the report went on , meant that he had allowed himself to be badly deceived and was not , therefore , the genius he was always alleged to be ; or he had intentionally lied to the people about rising war production , knowing all the time that saboteurs were at work . |
| 4 | At great expense to ourselves , Father and I had finally arrived on the very threshold of Bukit Tengah , the Middle Mountain , and this difficult little man and his black kid were refusing to proceed . |
| 5 | However often I lived through the moment , and I had just lived through it so vividly that the palms of my hands were sweating and my heart thumping , I could not make it last beyond that point . |
| 6 | When all the time I had actually been with him I had always realized he was the type to make a pass at the nearest girl with his last gasp , and I had just happened to be that girl . |
| 7 | I was next to Lee Macrae , accredited with being one of the world 's fastest starters , and I had already decided on my tactics . |
| 8 | Mick had argued his case forcefully , and I had reluctantly agreed to camp next to them . |
| 9 | It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe . |
| 10 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 11 | A person would only be liable as a constructive trustee of money he had received in payment of a commercial liability , and which had already passed through his hands , if it was possible to show that he knew that the money was misapplied trust money because he had actual knowledge of the breach of trust or he had wilfully shut his eyes to the obvious or had wilfully or recklessly failed to make inquiries that an honest and reasonable man would have made . |
| 12 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 13 | I was kneeling down and you had just fallen on the floor . |
| 14 | Matthew Cooper , for example , got there on only one game , a 23-points feast against Ireland at Athletic Park , and at the expense of his older brother Greg who played the four earlier tests and who had long prospered in Mains ' Otago side . |
| 15 | In the survey , an unemployed person is defined as anyone aged fifteen and over who was not employed during the week before the interview and who had actually looked for full-time or part-time work . |
| 16 | Of the remaining 40 women who did not currently smoke and who had never smoked at least 10 cigarettes a day , only 12 ( 30% ) had oncogenic papillomavirus . |
| 17 | And she had just turned on the TV , hoping for a late news-programme , when she heard the light knock on her bedroom door . |
| 18 | A crocodile handbag lay on the table and she had just slipped off her new Italian shoes . |
| 19 | She had forgotten about her tea caddy and the friendly shopkeeper in Sunningdale and she had soon forgotten about the kindness of young people and was reminiscing about the days when she was not alone at the villa but shared it with seven others . |
| 20 | And she had hardly disappeared from view before Arthur Conway turned on Agnes , a growl in his voice now as he said , ‘ What 's up with you ? |
| 21 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 22 | It had been a trick and she had almost fallen for it . |
| 23 | On admission , the child 's condition was said to be good , and she had fully recovered by the autumn . |
| 24 | Pebbles was an outstanding racehorse , but the Breeders ' Cup bid was none the less a characteristically bold move on the part of trainer Clive Brittain , for the Turf race is over one and a half miles and she had never raced beyond ten furlongs . |
| 25 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 26 | Nothing could have hurt on this glorious morning and she had quite forgotten about Marie and the amusement the girl would have had in seeing her . |
| 27 | In fact it was only a minute or so from the M27 and we had just passed over the Queen Elizabeth Bridge at Dartford . |
| 28 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 29 | Of the remaining seven , three were imprisoned before they could contact the Council , two were afraid that they might be recognised walking into the Council 's offices , one had a ‘ habit so big ’ that he thought it would be a waste of time , and one had never heard of the service . |
| 30 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |