Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 2 | I thought to myself that I had landed up in a place without an inch of ground to call my own . |
| 3 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 4 | It was mizzling steadily , so I had lashed out on a minibus ticket , which cost more than a taxi would here . |
| 5 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 6 | I had to go round with a can of milk ! |
| 7 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 8 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 9 | I had walked straight into a hideous trap . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 11 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 12 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 13 | I sent her a brochure I had picked up at a travel agent , together with a bouquet of roses and a letter . |
| 14 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 15 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 16 | I had got away by a lucky stroke and there would be no problem getting back into the Grand because one of my pals would be on sentry duty and it would be a case of " pass friend " . |
| 17 | Apparently I had windmilled in at a quarter to ten , with three bottles of champagne , all of which I dropped in one catastrophic juggle . |
| 18 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 19 | I had to come back to a degree agreeing with them . |
| 20 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 21 | Some years later , when Hellen and I had settled down to a busy and happily married life in China , we had a Chinese name worked out for her . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to start off with a Japanese Top 40 guitar — inch high action ! |
| 23 | Someone had backed out of a marriage and family honour had been damaged . |
| 24 | He pointed to different sections which had discoloured almost in a wavy pattern . |
| 25 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 26 | He could always get old Benny Robinson , his helper , to sweep the place up and tie up the piles of cardboard , but Benny had already swept up twice that day and he was now busy sorting out bundles of twine which had fallen out of a damaged carton and become unwound . |
| 27 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 28 | Colbert went wet again in 1982 , there 's an active local theatre group , and some people in the area are in the process of restoring and reopening the Ritz — which had survived mainly as a warehouse , and briefly as a recording studio in 1957 — putting on plays , and possibly a film series too . |
| 29 | He stooped to retrieve an ear-ring which had dropped out of a blouse he was holding . |
| 30 | Her pains , which had started long before a frightened Rose , acting as an amateur midwife , had thought to send for him , had stopped — a bad sign . |