Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 2 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 3 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 4 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 5 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 6 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 7 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 8 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 9 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 10 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 11 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 12 | ‘ I had forgotten what a silly little girl you still are . ’ |
| 13 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
| 14 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 15 | She had given her a tiny dose of medicine just before the explosion , and now Julia closed her eyes . |
| 16 | She had given herself a fair amount of time to get to Luke 's , and if she left the motorway at the next junction and did n't hang around she 'd be only a little late at the most . |
| 17 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 18 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 19 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 20 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 21 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |
| 22 | But he had not even asked — she had found him a little unnerving . |
| 23 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 24 | He turned on her eagerly and Maggie realised she had set herself an embarrassing trap and walked right into it . |
| 25 | For months , back home in Melbourne , she had wondered what The Big City on the other side of the world would look like . |
| 26 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 27 | Now , when Paul told her the truth , her first thought was that she wished she had got herself an extra gown , while she was at it ; in fact she had been unable conveniently to carry any more , or would have done so . |
| 28 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 29 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 30 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |