Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I had made it to the door of my flat .
2 Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him .
3 I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure .
4 In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green .
5 ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards .
6 I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’
7 I had lost it in the sea when swimming away from the ship .
8 ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’
9 And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from .
10 I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot .
11 I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song .
12 I thought I had seen it in a Met report , some time back .
13 We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years .
14 In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time .
15 I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy .
16 In the end I had to take it to a skid pan to see how far it would go before it eventually lost its cool The answer was as far as its steering lock would allow .
17 So I had to take it from the telesales side to get the appointment to get in the door to do a demonstration and then to do the after sales .
18 but I never had anything , I just went from one to the another , and I had to take it in the hall one day and I was n't , I was never very good at maths anyway , not that kind of maths .
19 Well I , I had done it at the interval .
20 Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end .
21 Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that .
22 The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth .
23 If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying .
24 I felt that I had known it for a long time .
25 I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome .
26 I had purchased it in a back street in Alexandria , and had become , in a short time , unreasonably attached to it .
27 I had to shout it above the noise of the engine .
28 Beth had invoked the help of God or Jesus Christ and I had taken it like a lamb .
29 Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years .
30 Someone had taken it to a French jeweller after the war and tried to sell it .
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