Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I found out after a bit of dressing-room chat what the other lads were on I had to make a point . |
| 2 | The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window . |
| 3 | Naturally enough I had to play a couple of games for the long-suffering Jewish Chronicle photographer ( who must have nightmares about having to snap me on his deathbed ) . |
| 4 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 5 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 6 | But obviously I had to make a choice as neither of them wanted a threesome friendship . |
| 7 | So I had to serve a week 's notice and I went down this er what 's the name of it ? |
| 8 | So I had to take an eye test , I remember . |
| 9 | So I had to arrange the funeral and so on . |
| 10 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 11 | And so I had to drag the coal scuttle up there , I was faced with that , and chop the sticks , which I 'd never done before . |
| 12 | One for only ninety nine P , so I had to make the money up they got |
| 13 | So I had to make the speech best as I could and it went down all right I think . |
| 14 | By eleven o'clock I had eaten the Kinlochewe Hotel 's packed lunch ( in lieu of breakfast ) and was bereft of all nourishment which I was greatly in need of . |
| 15 | None the less I had found the evening reassuring and felt no difficulty in saying that I was sorry but I was suddenly most awfully tired and if no one minded I thought I would go to bed . |
| 16 | Whilst relieved by the offer of the olive-branch , none the less I had to consider the implications . |
| 17 | Even now that his father was aware of his activities , it would not be the same ; only she knew the appalling effort he had made , only she had read the manuscript through and appreciated the clarity of his prose and the honesty of his outlook . |
| 18 | Perhaps her cure took place while she was still at Hampole and the Office refers to her as a recluse because that is what she later became , or perhaps she had become an anchoress while still at Hampole . |
| 19 | Perhaps she had allowed a horror of Morpurgo 's appearance to bias her judgement . |
| 20 | Perhaps she had caught the sun . |
| 21 | She had told him then that her body was all she had to offer a man . |
| 22 | Obviously she had understood the gist of the will and just wanted confirmation . |
| 23 | Obviously she had realised the futility of luring Silas into a chalet which lacked a double bed . |
| 24 | With the power of her eyes alone she had compelled a glass of water to tip and spill its contents over the horrible Headmistress , and anybody who could do that could do anything . |
| 25 | So she had played the field , enjoying male company without getting in too deep or too seriously . |
| 26 | So she had forced the issue , and given him a command . |
| 27 | So you had to have an engine for each generator ? |
| 28 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 29 | There were no more coffins available , but by four o'clock we had buried the soldiers , wrapped in plastic sheeting . |
| 30 | So we had to redecorate the house very quickly because I could n't bear it . ’ |