Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something or someone had annoyed him and instantly she assumed it was because he was landed with her here in his house . |
| 2 | A brilliant moon flooded the whole valley in white bright light , so that the houses and cottages stood out like toy models , relieved here and there by squares of glowing orange where someone had failed to draw a curtain . |
| 3 | Something he had said or somebody had said , something … |
| 4 | It had something to do with history and the past , that excitement , and something to do with potential as well , with what Orwell or somebody had said , that every man really knew in his heart the finest place to be was the countryside on a summer 's day . |
| 5 | ‘ Something he 'd seen , or somebody had seen ; whatever . |
| 6 | Perhaps Divitiacus had read his Posidonius — or somebody had read Posidonius to him . |
| 7 | Flora or somebody had told her where to find him . |
| 8 | Douglas burst open the door into the first , where somebody had lit a lamp . |
| 9 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 10 | Someone or something had tumbled . |
| 11 | Oh yes yes , but erm this we found wa always was the case with the er County Council Legal Department that er by the time they got round to it the people had either gone abroad or something had happened er |
| 12 | Someone or something had had compassion on me . |
| 13 | James , however , held the unwavering view that it was amongst the weak and the exploited where one had to look for the root of historical change . |
| 14 | or anyone had liked , him : |
| 15 | There was no evidence in the present case that L 's girlfriend had taken delivery of the goods or that she or anyone had had instructions from L to take the goods , and L was not the only adult living there . |
| 16 | Although everyone had tried to persuade Victoria that spending the summer with her cousins in their untidy house at the edge of the moor , would be a wonderful adventure , she was not convinced . |
| 17 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 18 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 19 | Hoping that nothing had gone wrong with the course of her friend 's romance , she turned around on the piano stool as she heard hard , firm footsteps walking along the terrace . |
| 20 | She had decided to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 21 | It might be thought that this was an essential part of the cuckoo 's deception — that by leaving the same number of eggs in the nest , the cuckoo might fool the host bird into thinking that nothing had happened . |
| 22 | The presenter said she could only recall a few people , and volunteered the story of David Parkin throwing a glass of wine at his wife and how she had watched Maggie Parkin stalk out of the room trying to pretend that nothing had happened . |
| 23 | In the evening , after a snack rather than a meal , I went up to the loft and used the telescope to take a distant look at the island , making sure that nothing had happened to it while I rested inside the house . |
| 24 | But I I 'm I was rather disappointed that nothing had happened . |
| 25 | John Major , the Foreign Secretary , said in another BBC interview that nothing had changed since the EC Madrid summit last June : Britain would become a full member of the European Monetary System ( EMS ) when inflation fell to ‘ the approximate rate ’ of European competitors , and when France and Italy abolished exchange controls . |
| 26 | And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed . |
| 27 | He could smell jasmine , garlic , turpentine , and , closing his eyes , he could cling to the illusion that nothing had changed . |
| 28 | It seemed that nothing had changed . |
| 29 | Yesterday he told the heads of such toffs ' schools as Eton and Marlborough that nothing had changed . |
| 30 | Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived . |