Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the beak could hold no more , they disappeared into the depths of a thicket where presumably they had a well-hidden nest of young . |
| 2 | Or rather she had assumed it without thinking . |
| 3 | She had a conscience — or rather she had what was an Asian 's limited version of a social morality , the strong sense of a favour done and an obligation to requite . |
| 4 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 5 | Archosaurs , the forerunners of dinosaurs , also probably lost heat through their surface skin , or perhaps they had air sacs beneath the skin to effect further cooling , and which also may have made them lighter on their feet . |
| 6 | Lambert hesitated , finding excuses in wanting to oversee the complete destruction of the flaming balloon , or wondering where the Triplane was , or perhaps they had a third balloon somewhere … |
| 7 | Or perhaps they had gone with their people to comfort them . |
| 8 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 10 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 11 | Or perhaps it had . |
| 12 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it had never existed . |
| 14 | Or perhaps you had n't noticed ? ’ |
| 15 | Or perhaps I had better have another brandy first . ’ |
| 16 | Or perhaps he had heard rumours of my goings-on , and had come personally to find out ‘ what Kirkup 's up to now ’ — the traditional BC phrase wherever they have the misfortune to discover my presence . |
| 17 | Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before . |
| 18 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 19 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 20 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 21 | Perhaps he had got himself moved to the bigger town , or perhaps he had gone home to London as some of the children had done . |
| 22 | Or perhaps he had already found them . |
| 23 | Or perhaps he had a premonition of the huge effort that lay ahead if he was to extricate France from a crisis in Algeria that had reached the verge of insolubility . |
| 24 | Perhaps her mother had convinced him that Shiona was incapable of such behaviour , or perhaps he had n't needed any convincing . |
| 25 | Or perhaps she had felt it then herself . |
| 26 | Or perhaps she had been in too much of a hurry to change . |
| 27 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 28 | She had caught no fish , or perhaps she had thrown them back . |
| 29 | Perhaps her cure took place while she was still at Hampole and the Office refers to her as a recluse because that is what she later became , or perhaps she had become an anchoress while still at Hampole . |
| 30 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |