Example sentences of "[pers pn] and had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 2 | Zak was nodding his mop of curls beside me and had begun snapping his fingers rather fast . |
| 3 | ‘ She recognised me and had some idea I wanted to do a story about her on York station . |
| 4 | Now this was a lady who hardly knew me and had met Nigel only once , and briefly , at a party . |
| 5 | He was at No 6 with It 'll Be Me and had his own column in the Mirror , which cost a mere 3d ( 1 1/4p ) . |
| 6 | When I started in the Preliminary Training School two and a half years ago my aunt had passed Little Ben on to me and had my name engraved beneath hers and grandfather 's on the back . |
| 7 | Because she [ the new maths teacher ] did n't know me , she did n't have any confidence in me … but because she did n't have any confidence in me , I did n't have any confidence in myself , and that is the thing that really makes me regret changing schools … at my first school all the teachers knew me and had confidence in me . |
| 8 | The Daily Telegraph carried a long story without mentioning my name , since Michael Berry was well disposed to me and had no wish to cause me embarrassment . |
| 9 | Finally , the matter lay solely between God and me and had nothing in time or eternity to do with anyone else . |
| 10 | The flight engineer , who had been at Halton as all apprentice with me and had left and later returned to the Air Force , complained bitterly as I was making all the preparations for take-off , but I ignored him . |
| 11 | ‘ But then , ’ he excused , ‘ I 've had but a short while to suspect — when you were prepared to leave without fulfilling your agreement to your sister whom you love so much — that you might , dare I believe it , be running from me because you loved me and had been badly hurt by my ‘ clinging ’ accusation . ’ |
| 12 | I nearly forgot you , I mean one week he rang me and had it pinched out of his car |
| 13 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 14 | The Arab states , with the exception of Lebanon and possibly Egypt , might well have resettled the bulk of the refugees , had Israel accepted the principle of the right of return by receiving back about one-quarter of them and had the international community generously funded resettlement . |
| 15 | Information had been received during the night that a large party of Dragoons , commanded by the infamous Graham of Claverhouse , were in pursuit of them and had spent the night at Strathaven . |
| 16 | Harriet had climbed them and had her key in the lock when she heard footsteps on the path behind her and a male voice called : ‘ Excuse me ! ’ |
| 17 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 18 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 19 | I can see my life as a road , and I can go back on that road and see what I 've passed and come to terms with and what I have passed by without realising and appreciating ; how I 've stopped in various cafes on the way and met interesting people in them and had fascinating conversations when all the time I should have been speaking to the person on the next table instead . ’ |
| 20 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 21 | ‘ I felt guilty enough to want to help the marriage succeed because I 'd introduced them and had n't thought to warn Rachel , mainly because I did n't find him attractive myself and he 'd never come across as the great seducer with me , and I knew that if it did n't work , it would turn out to be a lifelong trap for her . |
| 22 | Whilst Jack sat with them and had a beer and a photo taken , I wandered into the gloom of the shop and rather studiously examined some Portuguese washing-up bowls . |
| 23 | They claimed that to date diplomatic , political and humanitarian efforts by the international community had failed to stop the aggression against them and had done little to alleviate the suffering of the civilian population . |
| 24 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 25 | Dig in they might … but after a worthy battle , the ground finally slipped away beneath them and had to settle for second place . |
| 26 | At kick-off we were all over them and had loads of chances . |
| 27 | An interruption came from one of the schoolboys who had walked up behind them and had some question he wanted to ask Matthew . |
| 28 | Her sister was fond of animals too , but had never had very much to do with them and had moved away from home just after her eighteenth birthday . |
| 29 | So we listened to them and had a laugh , , teeny weeny what 's it , polka dot bikini they 're quite funny here . |
| 30 | She and had obviously gone away for the weekend . |