Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had misunderstood the name of the film , and not dared ask too many questions . |
| 2 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |
| 3 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 4 | I had made the journey from Aix a dozen years earlier . |
| 5 | We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts . |
| 6 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 7 | Michael : It 's about sportsman and when he was seven he was a good football player and then when I was about ten or eleven I went swimming and then when I was about eleven I dived in without any — urn — with no water in the pool so I got eye-sighted and then , when I was about fourteen it was I played snooker and I had to do the strokes really good because I was eye-sighted . |
| 8 | No , well I had to do the car first did n't I ? |
| 9 | I had to do the washing up |
| 10 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 11 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 12 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 13 | Anyway , I explained to Auntie , I had joined the army , and was being sent to London ; and I wanted to see her , and get her blessings . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , I had joined the Home Civil Service in the Department of Agriculture for Scotland at St Andrew 's House . |
| 15 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 16 | Before we delivered our report , however , I had joined the Arts Council , of which I became chairman in May 1965 . |
| 17 | I had to save the purchase price , which took several weeks ’ pocket money and watched almost daily , hoping that no-one else would buy the books before I had enough cash . |
| 18 | I had to save the King . |
| 19 | How could I know , unless I had moved the things out ? |
| 20 | I had imagined the cleaning to be a routine trundle and the retouching a source of joy , but apparently it 's vice versa and tête-bêche . |
| 21 | This was not how I had imagined the conquering of my childhood dream peak , and I was muttering and tutting under my breath as I clambered up towards them . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you understand why I had to kill the copy , Tao Chu ? ’ |
| 23 | I had broken the cycle of eight thousand lifetimes and defiled the banal brahmin inside me , polluted him by contact with the testable , the material proofs of induction . |
| 24 | I had to hold the door open for a woman with a pram , and then the whole population of Chetwynd poured out in a body , and I was still holding it . |
| 25 | And er I think after and when I became sixteen that er had to start paying your your m paying the union I had to join the union as a junior member you know . |
| 26 | Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part . |
| 27 | ‘ I had gathered the impression that the Prince had intended to be away only for a few days , ’ said Mahmoud . |
| 28 | I wish I had saved the hedgehog now , and not stood aside , and I have been wondering what stopped me from performing a natural act of sentimental kindness . |
| 29 | I had saved the girl 's life , and how did they thank me ? |
| 30 | The way I see it — if I had saved the world from a lot of boring belly dancers I ought to be congratulated . |