Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to hold some emergency meetings once , during the preparations for Billy Graham 's Euro 70 Crusade at Dortmund in 1970 . |
| 2 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 3 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 4 | Flying over the country at fifteen thousand feet at night , I had seen strange toy woods and towns and the eiderdown pattern of the fields . |
| 5 | I had to give first aid treatment when needed and issued simple medicines , which included ‘ Miss Alba ’ , a white elixir effective in the eradication of constipation . |
| 6 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
| 7 | I had experienced other bird observatories ; some were less well-endowed with the amenities of civilised living . |
| 8 | Bird noises faded up as if I had found another TV control . |
| 9 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |
| 10 | Now she had to wear this metal cage to stop the bones in her neck crumbling . |
| 11 | And it was then she had decided that war work or not , her daughter 's excursions with convalescent wounded must stop at once . |
| 12 | Mrs Cass , who was in a wheelchair in court and had breaks to be given oxygen , said she had suffered four heart attacks since the RSPCA became involved with her dogs . |
| 13 | She had suffered severe head injuries . |
| 14 | How she had suffered for him , for her poor pitiable ridiculous father , how she had hated her cruel peers for their relentless mocking , how she had dreaded each Christmas pantomime , each school-leavers ' farewell , each assembly that she knew her father was due to conduct , each occasion on which she heard him open his mouth in public . |
| 15 | It was intended that there should be assessment of the mother , but by August 1991 she had missed three assessment appointments . |
| 16 | She was immediately angry with herself for admitting to Eleanor that she had read those newspaper items , and that they had got to her . |
| 17 | The nine-page affidavit , filed by State Attorney David Bludworth in conjunction with the charges , documented the bruises found on the body of the alleged victim , and also stated that she had passed two polygraph tests on her statements to the police . |
| 18 | Was moaning about she had to buy three Christmas presents and she only got two kids So Ann turned round and said oh you 're fucking well mad I got to buy five presents and I 've only got two kids . |
| 19 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 20 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
| 21 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 22 | LATE at night an elderly woman rang Christine Hall to say that she had refused much-needed hospital treatment because she could not leave her dog , Holly . |
| 23 | She had requested new riding boots but her father with unaccustomed frugality had told her bluntly she must be satisfied with having her old boots repaired . |
| 24 | Recalled to the present by the cold of the flagstones numbing her feet and automatically aligning the cup handles , she suddenly realized why she had remembered that summer teatime in Martyr 's Cottage . |
| 25 | She had taken that whisky bottle from a nearby table and brought it down with as much strength as she could muster on Duvall 's head . |
| 26 | She was unconscious because she had taken some sleeping pills . |
| 27 | She started with the bones — good thing she had taken those anatomy courses — and laid on muscle , flesh and skin . |
| 28 | but it was it was cos you had you know , you had to go that week kind of thing . |
| 29 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 30 | If we had selected different base categories , we could have ended up with negative values of d . |