Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , when I did Friends or War I had to make sure there was a distance between them , because they are about completely different subjects . |
| 2 | At a joint one-day Wedgwood and Sotheby 's identification and valuation event at the Westfries Museum , in Hoorn , Lynn encountered many Dutch visitors who brought in a variety of heirlooms or pieces they had collected . |
| 3 | Her curiosity had never been great , and without nourishment or stimulation it had shrivelled . |
| 4 | It was n't like any other sickening or illness she had known . |
| 5 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 6 | McMillan was kept in hospital overnight as a precaution and was in a great deal of pain with his dislocated shoulder , plus the cuts and bruises he had to suffer . |
| 7 | The person brought up in the city who has a natural and instinctive knowledge of the curative properties of herbs and wild flowers ; the person who experiences déjà vu or the one who seems to recognize a ‘ stranger ’ although the two have never met before ; the person born with talents he has not had time to acquire — is it not a possible explanation of the genius of such prodigies as Mozart that he actually brought with him skills and talents he had learnt in a previous lifetime ? |
| 8 | He had seen the pose in several paintings in the churches and galleries he had visited in the past two weeks . |
| 9 | With a shrug that she hoped looked uncaring , she walked in , removed his jacket that was still round her shoulders , picked up the jeans and shirt she had left out to change into , and went into the bathroom . |
| 10 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 11 | The signature was not the signature of the letters and contracts he had seen at Jackson 's . |
| 12 | Meanwhile they fought , in the name of the politics and religions they had invented ( inventions which divide , whereas art unites ) . |
| 13 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 14 | He just could n't eat the amount of fruit and vegetables he had tucked into before . |
| 15 | If the Romans wanted systematic information about the Celtic lands and institutions they had to recruit Greek scholars . |
| 16 | And blood he had paid to teach her how to cope with imminence was crusting on his collar . |
| 17 | With a port virtually within the town and well-placed for access to the coastal plain , Downs and Weald it had become a significant trading centre . |
| 18 | She was startlingly beautiful , with proud elegant Kashmiri features and eyes so sensitive and expressive that the pain and humiliation she had suffered struck me , too , like a knife . |
| 19 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 20 | The trouble and expense he had gone to get himself on board looked increasingly ominous , I thought . |
| 21 | I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel . |
| 22 | She had been a bustling energetic woman , always in a hurry , always busy , but here in her last will and testament she had uncovered some of the disappointment of her life , which no one had ever guessed . |
| 23 | by skill and carefulness he had increased the family wealth and fortune and now he was a mighty man of wealth ! |
| 24 | On 27 July 1991 , in South Korea , six academics belonging to the Seoul Social Science Institute were arrested because of articles and books they had published which allegedly discussed and advocated a socialist revolution . |
| 25 | The disturbance escalated into a full-scale riot when other inmates began pulling on balaclavas and taking out sticks , iron bars and knives they had concealed beneath their uniforms . |
| 26 | It made her feel slightly sick now ; the satisfying feeling of warmth and lightness she had experienced after the first few glasses had long since disappeared . |
| 27 | They strip him down to nothing , removing every scrap of power and majesty he had left . |
| 28 | My Early Intermediates had unwittingly pointed out the parallels between Karen 's refusal to ‘ go behind Dennis 's back ’ and the recorded conversation about money and shopping I had played them . |
| 29 | Once in a while he must have thought about the gold and wealth he had deposited in Europe and wondered about the fate of those who had entrusted it to him . |
| 30 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |