Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , quite a few teachers took an interest in what I was trying to do , especially the biology teachers , who were impressed with my knowledge of birds and conservation , and my English teachers , who soon heard all about my interest because whenever we had to give a talk in class , I would launch into a full lecture on rearing and handling owls and other birds of prey . |
| 2 | How she had survived a nurse 's training and remained shy was beyond me , but the fact remained she had . |
| 3 | The bruises on the neck and face and legs of the widow and her children were still livid on the brown skin as they recounted how they had run a gauntlet of fists and kicks and curses of their neighbours . |
| 4 | It was Fleury who , remembering how he had made a visor for his smoking cap , found the solution by whipping his Bible out of his shirt and tearing the boards off . |
| 5 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 6 | Ken has often told me the story of how Jackie came to drive single-seaters : how he had lost a driver in F3 ( Teddy Mayer 's brother Timmy ) and how John Cooper had reported to him ( belatedly , Ken says , because he 'd already spotted Jackie ) that there was some tiny Scot going around whom he absolutely must sign . |
| 7 | He tells me about how he had to leave a Walthamstow pub in embarrassment when he was asked to do some karaoke , and then asked for his autograph . |
| 8 | He should have seemed ridiculous , the big man , demonstrating how he had put a girl to flight , but I felt sorry for him . |
| 9 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 10 | He smiled , his eyes twinkling as he told Iain how he had had a glimpse of the lower decks , which had all been cut away in the centre and some sort of plastic covering installed . |
| 11 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 12 | The second was when I had mistaken a stag beetle for a cockroach . |
| 13 | I claimed no personal credit for that , since , like most girls , I could always tell when I had lit a spark in a man at sight , and vice versa . |
| 14 | Recalling a time when I had had a staff of seventeen under me , and knowing how not so long ago a staff of twenty-eight had been employed here at Darlington Hall , the idea of devising a staff plan by which the same house would be run on a staff of four seemed , to say the least , daunting . |
| 15 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 16 | The fire had died to cold ashes , but I felt my way to where I had seen a candlestick , left ready on the mantelpiece , presumably as insurance against just this event . |
| 17 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 18 | Yes so that 's why she had to have a doctor for that one . |
| 19 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 20 | Maja Nagel rues the day when she had to leave a castle in the East for a cramped little studio in Berlin . |
| 21 | That was when she had made a fool of herself . |
| 22 | I do n't want to be talking to you , thought Penelope desperately , trying to appear interested in what Robina Fairfax was saying about a place in West London where she had bought a piece of statuary for her garden at a very reasonable price . |
| 23 | Our last cliff path led us above the water , west into the setting sun , to Mgarr where we had landed a week earlier . |
| 24 | The flight was very bumpy indeed , and we really wondered whether we would make it to Chengchow , where we had to make a half-hour stop before continuing our journey . |
| 25 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , on reaching the spot where they had seen a person loitering , there was no one to be seen . |
| 27 | Fumbling with a collection of tapes which were jumbled around the gear lever , he called out to the boys behind to ask where they had put a tape of a classic poem set to music . |
| 28 | Firewomen Emerton , Simpson , Smart and Turner — telephonists from Farnham Fire Station — returned from a ten week course near Reading where they had won a cup after competitions with several other fire service teams . |
| 29 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 30 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |