Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could not in those days , see God for his creature , of whom I had made an idol . |
| 2 | I came in an ambulance with a patient — I had to do an emergency tracheotomy before we got to hospital . ’ |
| 3 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 4 | Of course there were friends whom I could have asked , but I had seen an opportunity to be stubborn and had dismissed each of her suggested candidates with tiresome and irrelevant objections — too fat , too blonde , too tall , too many teeth . |
| 5 | Probably this was no longer true , for I had seen an African in town who seemed very much at home . |
| 6 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |
| 7 | ‘ I had to call an automobile race car body manufacturer to make these double concave pieces which were very difficult to fashion from the second hand pattern we had . |
| 8 | I had eaten an orange and thrown the peel on the fire just as I lit it , and the smell of orange zest and smoke embittered the air while the peel lay , mock flame , amid the cold coals . |
| 9 | I came back to London before the actual signing of the agreement because I had to attend an Arts Council meeting . |
| 10 | In 1940 I had prepared an essay on Ivy 's novels , which I had some prospect of placing in Horizon . |
| 11 | On our first trip together we had visited a café of a very old-fashioned kind , called Cafeteria Varela Reposteria in Preciados , and I had noted an inscription saying En este lugar escribiõ sus mejores versos el gran poeta Emilio Carrere 1881–1947 . |
| 12 | I had heard an Irishman say ‘ Begorrah ’ and now I could die happy . |
| 13 | I had discovered an area of my life over which others had no control . |
| 14 | So I had to take an eye test , I remember . |
| 15 | And I think if I had to choose an adjective to describe myself , I would say that I 'm a cultural historian , with a very strong social interest . |
| 16 | I had developed an admiration for the works of Ogden Nash , whose newest verse appeared almost weekly in The New Yorker . |
| 17 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 18 | And I had to have an address to send the bill for the storage , which I would send to her on account every three months . |
| 19 | My husband tried to distract me , and the midwife offered pethidine instead — but the pain — my legs were buckling , I had to have an epidural . |
| 20 | ‘ She knew I had to have an operation , ’ said Olivia . |
| 21 | and partly because I had to have an operation which meant that it would n't be easy for me to live in the flats any longer . |
| 22 | " I had to have an umbrella to walk you home . " |
| 23 | But I had to have an excuse to see you , so I 'm not complaining . |
| 24 | I had to have an explanation for his team 's strange behaviour . |
| 25 | Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing . |
| 26 | On my first week as a passed out Goods Guard in August 1962 , I had to work an Annesley Sidings , G.C. , to Sheffield Rotherham , freight train . |
| 27 | In a moment of stupidity I had forged an entry into my building society account book with a pencil , attempting to draw out several hundred pounds . |
| 28 | Realising that I was piqued by the recognition that I was not singular even in what I had considered an inadequacy , I convicted myself of lack of humility . |
| 29 | But I had to get an appointment , I had to get something I I put hot water |
| 30 | I had to get an ambulance to her . |