Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had to do that trip on my own . |
| 2 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
| 3 | Everything had a value , I had to do these jobs round the house , bring in the logs , clean the car . |
| 4 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 5 | No , I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill . |
| 6 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 7 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 8 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 9 | ‘ I had to score eight points at Bradford to make my trip financially successful . ’ |
| 10 | I had reached optimum trust in my balance and my feet . |
| 11 | Jeremy Isaacs and I had know each other for a long time . |
| 12 | I had studied certain aspects of the law to some purpose . |
| 13 | I had to carry hot water for washing to every room . ’ |
| 14 | I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors . |
| 15 | I had lost two stones since joining the RAF . |
| 16 | I had lost all joy in youth . |
| 17 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 18 | And further , I had no idea I had lost some 10,000ft by this stage . |
| 19 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 20 | If I had to put any money on any one at this moment , it would have to be them . |
| 21 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
| 22 | I recall that I had written another broadside in reply to an article in The Student Vanguard by Rayner Heppenstall , then a communist , called ‘ T. S. Eliot : sign of the times ’ . |
| 23 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 24 | I had seen many people in the distance . |
| 25 | I had seen many pictures of attacks on the city but somehow seeing that bridge destroyed , it suddenly hit me what is happening to Baghdad . |
| 26 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 27 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 28 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 29 | I had seen these images of John before , but then came a video report from Danish TV back in 1981 . |
| 30 | My billetors were kind , but I had to spend considerable time in their sitting-room , and I felt this was an invasion of privacy for both of us . |