Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 2 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 3 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 4 | Mrs Hancock turned up in a Rolls-Royce after announcing she had organised a requiem mass at Perth 's St Mary 's Cathedral on Friday . |
| 5 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 6 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 7 | CW reported he had passed a list of requirements to meet EC Directive on Workstation H & S to IL , but he had not yet had time to discuss eye and eyesight testing requirements with M Prior . |
| 8 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 9 | ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim . |
| 10 | He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it . |
| 11 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 12 | Now it seemed she had found a man she could love , but he was someone else 's husband and her brother was bent on vengeance . |
| 13 | Each time you wanted to go up or down you had to pull a chain . |
| 14 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 15 | A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective . |
| 16 | The current governor ran into a storm when it was revealed he had received a 17% pay increase in 1991 . |
| 17 | Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation . |
| 18 | All the same , she realised she had to earn a living to support herself and Matt , and hit upon the idea of setting herself up as a hairdresser . |
| 19 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 20 | A post mortem examination revealed she had suffered a heart attack at the time of the accident . |
| 21 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 22 | When she had thought she had felt a tug , her mind corrected . |
| 23 | So backers latching on to John Dunlop 's Jazeel on his debut at Doncaster last month must have thought they had discovered a goldmine . |
| 24 | At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further . |
| 25 | It had certainly been built to last , and although we could see it had lost a lot of windows and the stonework was damaged , it was obviously going to be standing there a few more years yet . |
| 26 | Property Management , of Darlington , claimed it had served a notice to quit on Finnegan last September . |
| 27 | In a telephone interview with the government-run radio station , Mr Chen Jun claimed he had become a victim of political games between the Chinese and Hong Kong Governments . |
| 28 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 29 | And when a car collided with a stationary vehicle , listeners were told it had encountered a van full of envelopes and other items of stationery ! |
| 30 | She was horrified until she guessed he had lit a cigarette . |