Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 2 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 3 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 4 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 5 | As I sat in my comfortable chair I had a very strange feeling . |
| 6 | Oops , in my last mail I had 12 players in the lineup . |
| 7 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 8 | Sheringham , who hit 24 goals last season and scored Forest 's winner in their televised 1-0 clash against Liverpool at the City Ground on Sunday , says : ‘ I had virtually concluded negotiations over personal terms with Tottenham 's Terry Venables and in my own mind I had already joined Spurs . ’ |
| 9 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 10 | In my own mind I had valued the things at 4000 roubles each . |
| 11 | In their metaphorical indiscipline they had gained ‘ new status ’ and slipped across a boundary into marginality , for as Foucault ( 1977 : 25 ) has suggested , the idea of discipline revolves around control of the physical body and ‘ proceeds from the distribution of individuals in space … it is always the body that is at issue — the body and its forces , their utility and their docility , their distribution and their punishment ’ . |
| 12 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 13 | Few men living in Leicester were not , Theda reflected , for in her former life she had learned early that this was the best hunting country in England . |
| 14 | In her first school she had been considered outstanding at maths , and had obtained six grade As in her nine O levels . |
| 15 | In her first year she had one of those rare teachers who notices children and treats each one differently . |
| 16 | In her normal state she had the head and teeth of a savage wolf and the wings of a bat , although she would endeavour not to allow any mortal to see her thus . |
| 17 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 18 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 19 | In its first year it had provided funding totalling ECU621,000,000 for 20 projects in central and eastern Europe , for which an overall total of ECU2,100 million of investment was made ( ECU1=US$1.24065 as at March 30 , 1992 ) . |
| 20 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 21 | In his private practice he had adults in psychoanalysis and some children too , though with children he now concentrated more on the ‘ therapeutic consultation ’ , where he found that a single interview could at times unhitch a developmental hold-up . |
| 22 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 23 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 24 | In his unobtrusive way he had shown his interest in my faltering attempts to climb the golfing ladder , and had even carried my bag in the Amateur Championship . |
| 25 | The new York Times declared that in his White Revolution he had " aligned himself directly with the workers and peasant against conservatives and traditionalists " . |
| 26 | In his sixteenth year he had the confidence to begin to write descriptive nature essays for publication in journals and newspapers . |
| 27 | It soon became clear that somewhere in his furtive passage he had lost his way — that at least was the opinion expressed by the Bishop of Chester as he fended off Lord Charles 's passionate advances . |
| 28 | In his windswept position he had never known a serious attack of mildew — but he did then ! |
| 29 | Then in his foolish exhilaration he had leaped into a tree and spotted them with his binoculars . |
| 30 | These in his original draft he had characterised at " Chetniks " , a term often loosely used at the time although its most precise meaning was to refer to the Royalist followers of Gen Mihailovitch . |