Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had [verb] a [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | But obviously I had to make a choice as neither of them wanted a threesome friendship . |
| 4 | So I had to serve a week 's notice and I went down this er what 's the name of it ? |
| 5 | Perhaps she had allowed a horror of Morpurgo 's appearance to bias her judgement . |
| 6 | She had told him then that her body was all she had to offer a man . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So we had to rent a forklift truck from somewhere , then manhandle the saw into the workshop . |
| 10 | On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 . |
| 11 | And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load . |
| 12 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 13 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 14 | So they had to get a chap that knew his business and I think he was entitled to get extra money . |
| 15 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 16 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 17 | We moved it once and apparently it had to go a zoo after that cos when we moved it back it was about twelve foot long , and then of course it g grew even larger than that . |
| 18 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 19 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 20 | ( Obviously he had read a book on wine too . ) |
| 21 | So it had to have a structure . |
| 22 | All around him , backstabbing and financial disaster fomented chaos , inside he had discovered a universe of beauty and order . |
| 23 | Anyway I had got a ticket for the West Stand in the top corner by the Kop , which was a good view , apart from a large pillar which was right in front of the south goal . |
| 24 | It seemed that she had been here years , and already she had driven a wedge between her and Ben . |
| 25 | Somehow they had kept a fire smouldering here . |
| 26 | The officer was duly fetched in and asked whether or not he had taken a statement from Wells . |
| 27 | to be with my friends although they let me sit with me friends so they 're good really so I 'm hoping that I should be able to get back on a Wednesday because er , that 's the only day really I can go , I go to Barn Mead on a Thursday as a rule you see , but yesterday I had to have a day off to go out , I had an invite out |
| 28 | What was more I had secured a place for Vicky in the chorus . |
| 29 | Almost the first time ever she had volunteered a greeting . |
| 30 | For a few miles , as we hugged the shore of the Strait , the northbound road was paved ; but once we had passed a junction and the track leading eastwards across to Argentina , it reverted to rutted gravel and the wind blew little spirals of dust across it , like ectoplasmic tumbleweed . |