Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By some mix-up , my papers did n't seem to be in order and I had to hold on there until the proper American visa came through . |
| 2 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 3 | I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs . |
| 4 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 5 | I had to ring twice more before Jozef answered the phone . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to rush off just as he was about to arrive . |
| 7 | There was no fire and I had switched off long before the port wing touched the ground , I saw him hare across the airfield diagonally opposed to the direction of the hangar , and indeed the aircraft , and at the same time he was haring away towards Findhorn . |
| 8 | The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France . |
| 9 | As we watched , the fog , which had crept as far as the house , began to flow round it . |
| 10 | Egyptian stone vases reached Crete before the bronze age began ; the Cretan industry , which had started as early as 2500 BC , nevertheless post-dated the arrival of these foreign vases . |
| 11 | But in this period , his several talents which had shone so clearly when he was much younger and somehow been lost in the scrum of his long adolescence , began to regroup . |
| 12 | It had been a special childhood , full of laughter and fun ; Mark and she had grown up together as friends , as well as brother and sister . |
| 13 | Fen had seen her angry before , but never so angry that she had lashed out physically as well as verbally . |
| 14 | When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family . |
| 15 | Ruth kissed her aunt and then , clasping her hands tightly in her own , she said what she had to say as gently as possible . |
| 16 | They had grown so used to her not joining in that they had not really noticed that she had stayed up there when they came down . |
| 17 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 18 | She had gone much further than she had imagined . |
| 19 | When Edmund had left her she had wandered as far as the orchard , and had just pushed aside the crooked wicker gate to re-enter the garden when she heard the latch of the heavier postern rattle . |
| 20 | He had kissed and fondled her and she had responded as well as she could but they had both been too aware of each others inexperience and uncertainty to achieve fulfilment . |
| 21 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 22 | She had woken earlier even than usual , with Tom beside her , sleeping contentedly and openly on his back . |
| 23 | Gina fell into a routine of taking Magnus to the gardens early , before she went to help Margaret at the gallery ; she had to get up anyway because Magnus woke and whined after the milkman had been round , and in the small flat the whimpering seemed to penetrate everywhere . |
| 24 | She had got as far as pulling out her suitcase , which looked scruffier than ever now that her eyes had accustomed themselves to the comfortable luxury of Luke Hunter 's flat , and laying it open on the bed before something inside her rebelled . |
| 25 | When I saw it the other night , tucked inside the cello part of one of the piano trios we play , she had got as far as ‘ State 7 — Moderate Gale : Intervals of laughter . |
| 26 | Claudia closed her eyes as she remembered the time she had come home earlier than usual . |
| 27 | She had glanced up briefly as Kerry , one of her assistants , approached her . |
| 28 | The hair now was white , but the baggy suits had n't altered in style a jot and she had changed remarkably little except that , as Meredith was distressed to see , the old lady now had a walking stick which accompanied her everywhere . |
| 29 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 30 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |