Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jacqui had only given him the Christian name . |
| 2 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 3 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 5 | ( Mutengene is a harder word than Sasse so I had better give you the pronunciation : Moo-teng-genay . ) |
| 6 | " You had better show me the sites , " Matthew said , " and I 'll see what I can suggest . " |
| 7 | The most prominent families had no objection to service — it had long offered them the surest route to power , wealth , and prestige . |
| 8 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 9 | Pertwee had already employed it the previous morning effectively to terminate interrogation . |
| 10 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 11 | He had already sent me the Strachey book , The Theory and Practice of Marxism , and Spender 's , the original title of which was The Approach to Communism , seemed to me to go with it very well . |
| 12 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 13 | Other executives had already asked themselves the same question . |
| 14 | They had already suspected what the problems were , and Liz and her parents soon started to discuss ways in which they could deal with the backlog of paperwork . |
| 15 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
| 16 | She had n't taken part in the questioning but the others , Mair knew , would assume that that was because he had already told her the answers . |
| 17 | A hush of skirts had already told her the girls were coming down from upstairs . |
| 18 | The local ombudsman found Lancashire SSD had not given her the support and counselling she needed . |
| 19 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |
| 20 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 21 | It was clear that Holmes ' cleverness with the telegram had not given us the proof we needed . |
| 22 | She gazed , wide-eyed , at the first large town she had ever visited , for Matilda had not permitted her the freedom of Gloucester . |
| 23 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 24 | Perhaps , they said , he was married or engaged and had not told me the truth about himself . |
| 25 | She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory . |
| 26 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 27 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 28 | Stephen had just granted me the barony , and I decided ‘ t was time I had a wife . |
| 29 | He had just given her the chocolates and she had kissed him . |
| 30 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |