Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] had [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true . |
| 2 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 3 | ‘ It happened in the gym of this club right in the middle of my training , ’ he recalled , ‘ but it was not the training that brought on the attack although I had probably overdone things . |
| 4 | As the clouds of imminent civil war gathered , Pelham hastened back to Hull where he later wrote : ‘ I kept the King out of Hull when he came in person ( although I had not such instructions from the House ) — where was a very great magazine in which I suppose I saved the State above £100,000 … |
| 5 | The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains . |
| 6 | But that 's the way the game goes and erm I think as we said ‘ as the game went on , you always had the feeling that in fact Charlton , although they had very little pressure , would sneak a goal , ’ and of course that 's exactly what they did . |
| 7 | Oxford begin the build-up to their Varsity defence with a bigger overseas influence than they had even last season . |
| 8 | On his site check our instructor found he was severely affected by reduced ‘ g ’ , although he had about 60 hours ' solo gliding . |
| 9 | Erm , so that I apparently would be still me even if I had completely different desires , tastes , er preferences er so on and so forth . |
| 10 | If I had , if I had more pressing tasks personally , I would n't be doing it . |
| 11 | Then , just to get you really thinking , you answer a second crucial question : What would I do if I had only six months to live ? |
| 12 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 13 | I continued knitting until I had about twenty centimetres , eight inches , and removed the stitches from the machine . |
| 14 | Yeah , but I could n't of gone anyway , cos I had too many kids |
| 15 | But I doubt if she had as much fun . |
| 16 | If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all . |
| 17 | So if you want to use just one dryer for your hair , you will now have to use the curiously inefficient-sounding sèche-cheveu , as if you had only one hair to dry . |
| 18 | If you had only two bullets , who would you shoot among Saddam Hussein , Yasser Arafat or Paul Keating ? |
| 19 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 20 | Christ knows , as if we had n't enough problems with the bloody Germans without Peter Young stirring them up. , The Sergeant marched off muttering loudly to himself , something about ‘ fucking bagpipes ' ’ and ‘ ‘ crazy colonels ' ’ . |
| 21 | as if we had n't enough troubles , now I read that the International Monetary Fund is worried that the world is running short of money ! |
| 22 | I think that if they had just local lads to contend with there would be no problems . |
| 23 | There was , however , room for two pages of details of other excerpts records in the same series : why anyone would be any more interested in these than in the Humperdinck if they had not more information than that supplied with this CD was not clear . |
| 24 | They decided to go north to Thorpe Old Manor and spend Christmas as if they had as few cares as they now had pence . |
| 25 | By constantly loose feeding loose maggots he was able to keep the fish active in his swim , enabling him to pick them off steadily until he had about 10 lb. 6 oz . |
| 26 | It looked as if it had only two storeys , but suggested an attic under the fanlight in the roof . |
| 27 | Therefore , it is conceivable that a higher cost drug would be worthwhile , compared to the alternative , if it had much higher effectiveness . |
| 28 | There was ever-smiling Doctor Agrippa , hawk-visaged Carey , the thick coarsened face of Melford and , of course , Scawsby , his face sour as ever as if he had just broken wind and hoped no one would notice . |
| 29 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 30 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |