Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] or have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 2 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 3 | Priority between applications is partly based on frequency of paid training in past and partly on use made of attendances on return , e.g. wrote good report , organised something similar here which worked or has stimulated others to develop the ideas expressed there ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Especially to those under the enchantment of love , ’ he answered , and Fabia experienced a need to discover if Ven himself knew or had ever known that enchantment . |
| 5 | Those members of the working-class who rejected or had sunk below the influence of the class above them , remained largely illiterate and inarticulate . |
| 6 | Of those two colleagues , interestingly enough , one is a health visitor by background , the other is a nurse , but someone who practised or has n't practised , but as a district health community planner for a number of years . |
| 7 | She had a fistful of tiny flowers , and made me wait patiently while she described them all , making up her own names when she forgot or had never learned the real ones . |
| 8 | Differences in antibody responses between the study groups were assessed by comparison of ( i ) rates of seroconversion ( defined as a change in antibody titre from undetectable [ <8 ] to detectable [ 8 ] ; ( ii ) rates of secondary 4-fold or greater rises in antibody titre in seropositive children for whom additional 4-fold rises could be reliably documented with a neutralisation upper limit of 1:1024 — ie , children with baseline titres of 8–256 ; and ( iii ) type-specific geometric mean titres ( GMTs ) among the total study population and among children who seroconverted or had secondary 4-fold or greater rises in antibody after vaccination . |
| 9 | It was just something you had or had n't done . |
| 10 | There is no evidence that she married or had children . |
| 11 | Some people had copies of public documents ( such as the agreement by the shaikhs of 1946 ) which they inherited or had copied for their own use and enjoyment . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the insiders were under an obligation , inter alia , to disclose material matters about which they knew or had reason to believe the relevant shareholders had insufficient knowledge . |
| 13 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 14 | He could not think clearly at all of any women he knew or had known . |
| 15 | When it ended in the mid 1960s , to be replaced in quick succession by sociology , anthropology , and linguistic theory , it turned introspective in its defeat , wasting its energies on the grimly unavailing task of seeking , and never finding , a theoretical basis for what it did or had once done . |
| 16 | It is not enough for the defendant to show that he was aware of the contents of what he was distributing or publishing , but did not himself think that it was insulting if the jury or magistrate should come to the conclusion that he suspected or had grounds to suspect otherwise . |