Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spoken Lear 's opening lines and I had felt a shiver run through the theatre 's great darkness , because the voice was there , and the power of it , and he was suddenly not a dirty old man at all , but a great , kind , foolish and painfully honest King . |
| 2 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 3 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 4 | Tony and I had organized a dog sledging trip which we hoped would take us from Dividal in northern Norway through Sweden and into Finland . |
| 5 | But facts are facts , and I had heard a hound . |
| 6 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 7 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
| 9 | And I had to ask a lad stood at front , I said can you ask him to stop at this stop please . |
| 10 | Val and I had met a party of school children with the master giving them a botany lesson as we walked , so we tagged on and saw a lot we would n't otherwise have noticed . |
| 11 | Please to remember I had finished my own stint , and I had served a period on Bennett 's staff as his " horse-thief " — the recruiter and trainer , I was the Group training inspector . |
| 12 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 13 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 14 | There were only two bedrooms and I had to share a bedroom with David 's mother , a living arrangement that I just was n't used to . |
| 15 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 16 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 17 | Anyway I had to photograph the man , I photographed the cow and I had to photograph a background . |
| 18 | I found this one at a big sale in London , and I had to pay a lot of money for it . |
| 19 | Now I was making ten shillings a week , and I had to pay a penny toll every day to come to from office . |
| 20 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 21 | Much taken aback , not least because Amy and I had had a number of conversations about her low opinion of the Church and what it stood for , I asked how she knew it was Jesus . |
| 22 | The media were later to make much of the discovery that a few weeks after Dennis Parsons 's death , Karen and I had spent a weekend at the same hotel in mid-Wales . |
| 23 | And I had spent a total of three winters playing Grade cricket in the city and found that I really liked the place and the people . |
| 24 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 25 | To begin with I found it almost too much to take on board , but it was all extremely thought-provoking and I had to make a decision to put my heart into it or not to bother at all ; it would have been pointless just to dip into it now and again . |
| 26 | ‘ After a cross-country pursuit it eventually landed in a tree and I had to organise a rescue . |
| 27 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 28 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 29 | And then he come in to us then and he says to me I 'm bleeding and I had to get a plaster for him and he |
| 30 | There was fifty and there was five levers and three lifts and I had to get a piece of paper and er make a , when you get one , two , three and then five you could have er three , three , two , one and five , four , three , two , one , you know what I mean ? |