Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
| 2 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 3 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 4 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 5 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 6 | Sure enough , within a couple of minutes I had raised a trucker . |
| 7 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 8 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 9 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 10 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 11 | In Kee 's fine dark eyes he had read a call for help . |
| 12 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 13 | By the end of six months he had had a breakdown and was asked to leave . |
| 14 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 15 | As a child she had had a piggy bank ; she could recall the physical satisfaction of its jingling weight in her hands . |
| 16 | He discovered that as a girl she had had a passion for Stendhal , so had he , and they talked about Julien Sorel and Tolstoi and Rimbaud . |
| 17 | In one scene he had to take a handkerchief out of his pocket , and in the process shower Maggie Smith with nuts . |
| 18 | No wonder he had seemed a bit on edge . |
| 19 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 20 | He grew flowers on the graves : last winter he had started a cemetery at the bottom of the garden and stuck in a big cross for a sign . |
| 21 | As a child he had played a game with some of his friends where one child would stand behind another and put his hands round the other 's chest . |
| 22 | In her first defence , Esther Dyson admitted by signs she had borne a child , but had pulled its head off when delivering it herself . |
| 23 | But in her heart she had felt a pang of unease . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , it was good , ’ she replied , rather vexed in case she had betrayed a lack of appreciation by standing up too quickly . |
| 25 | It was that same look she had caught a glimpse of earlier . |
| 26 | How many times she had felt a lift of excitement when she saw that sign and knew that Riverstown was only ten minutes away . |
| 27 | From their discarded belongings she had made a museum that recorded forty years of family history . |
| 28 | At one point she had joined a group of these elderly relatives , women either widowed , de-childed or , their men at the bar talking men 's talk , temporarily joined in huddle with sisters . |
| 29 | Thank goodness she had married a visionary like Stephen . |
| 30 | Yes , the tour was definitely looking up a little , and only the previous evening she had written a card to her daughter to say that in spite of a death and a theft and a murder she was ‘ beginning to make one or two very nice friends on the trip ’ . |