Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | was spinning , I thought I was gon na jump off the roof , I rang my G P and said , you never told me I had to decrease this dose , hang on just get through the weekend , |
| 2 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 3 | This guy persuaded me I had to adopt that attitude in the Tests as well . |
| 4 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 5 | The most admirable part of the whole affair was the undeviating loyalty of his wife , Valerie Hobson , with whom I had had some encounters previously , when she was married to Anthony Havelock-Allan . |
| 6 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 7 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 8 | And the human frame on to which I had grafted this delusion had definitely left Cliff Top , but despite this , from time to time I would come across what seemed like obscure messages , quirkily encoded , that threatened to upset my peace of mind . |
| 9 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
| 10 | It was here that we found the official report of the operation by 22 Squadron on September 17 , 1940 , the report with which I had opened this story . |
| 11 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 12 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 13 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |
| 14 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 15 | Take the statement that he wanted to see the German play of which he had heard some praise , and consider substituting the co-referring description " the Left-wing play whose inept performance will make him wish he had stayed at home " . |
| 16 | He had preached a sermon in which he had said these words : ‘ It is dangerous to be a Christian in our nation . |
| 17 | But he seemed anxious to show me his own poetry , with which he had filled several notebooks . |
| 18 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 19 | Another factor was undoubtedly Layton 's own involvement with Greece , which went back to 1951 , about which he had written many poems . |
| 20 | But he appeared at the Old Bailey for an earlier trespass at Buckingham Palace , during which he had drunk some wine in the office of the Prince of Wales ' private secretary , and was sent to a secure hospital in Liverpool . |
| 21 | Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end . |
| 22 | He produced another sheet of paper on which he had typed some notes . |
| 23 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 24 | No doubt Mr. Spencer was pleased to note that S.M.E.T. Nos. 36–51 were equipped with track brakes which he had invented many years ago at Bradford . |
| 25 | Mead was blind for the last ten years of his life , but his interest endured in the game to which he had brought such commitment and talent . |
| 26 | He felt that the play upon which he had bestowed such care had been a failure . |
| 27 | They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon . |
| 28 | To the crew it was a routine trip and one they had made many times before by night . |
| 29 | Something was bothering him , something he had seen this morning at the bridge … |
| 30 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |