Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews . |
| 2 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 3 | She decided that she had done enough research ; it was time to start detailed plotting of her novel . |
| 4 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 5 | In the middle of this strange house 's celebrations she felt much more of an outsider than she had done sitting on her own in her room . |
| 6 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 7 | We told that we had to do some preliminary research for possible television programmes . |
| 8 | By the time of Elizabeth 's death in 1603 Englishmen did not rule any more land outside the British Isles than they had done 45 years earlier but their seafaring position had been transformed . |
| 9 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 10 | On the balance of last night 's play , Everton were entitled to feel that they had done enough to take Forest back to Goodison Park . |
| 11 | He said he mostly cruised now — although he had done several Fastnets and a few Ton-Cups some years ago . |
| 12 | Because another way in which I had to throw good money after bad was that after he died once I started having things done in the house they kept on turning up things that he had done that were absolutely N B G |
| 13 | He was also convicted of five counts of obtaining property by deception , namely sums of money by way of fees from Mr. Burt and another man named Hughes , contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , the deception being that he had done certain accountancy work for those persons who were both small businessmen , when in truth he had not . |
| 14 | The lay brother was quiet , contenting himself with the dry comment that he had done enough penance to wipe a thousand years of purgatory from the debt his soul owed God . |
| 15 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 16 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 17 | On reflection , I thought it less and less probable that he had done any such thing : he would have to have bypassed the dragon-lady , Leslie Brown , for a start . |
| 18 | ‘ I just show the prisoners a picture of an aborted baby and I say to them if I had done that to a baby I deserve to be here , but what I am trying to do is prevent it happening . ’ |
| 19 | Most days she would , sooner or later , walk down the lawn to examine her plants and I learned to wait until she had done this before myself settling in the summer-house . |
| 20 | And you had to do all that dusting and keep it and you 'd read over all these things , every time you dusted until you got to know them . |
| 21 | She said her name was Liz , she was a friend of the family , and she had done some nursing once , a long time ago , but gave it up to get married . |
| 22 | How would you , if you had to do that if you do it the easy way , do n't do it the hard way , how would you do that ? |
| 23 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 24 | If you had done that a quarter of a century ago you would still be pleased with yourself . |
| 25 | Without such basic knowledge , you might gain some small insight into the sport , but at a much lower level of appreciation than if you had done some reading in advance . |
| 26 | Erm er and if you had done some researches into the job opportunities and you you could decide that then that that would be good . |
| 27 | Well , we should have knocked off work at about twelve on the Saturday , and instead of that , being a shop , they were taking orders and we had to do all the alterations as they came in , and bought the clothes . |
| 28 | They always left because they were afraid of my stepfather , and we had to do all the work in the house . |
| 29 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 30 | Monica will be alright she know 's what she 's doing , it 's just whether she has the time to do it , she would liked it if we had done this before Christmas , so that while you were away John |