Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 2 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 3 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 4 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 5 | In the year which ended with my twenty-first birthday , I had made twenty-nine parachute jumps , been arrested , spent a month on bail , been in hospital twice , stabbed in the face once , and spent over two thirds of my days with the Territorials . |
| 6 | Well I had to do that agenda when Hugh was n't here , so |
| 7 | When I had to do that trip on my own . |
| 8 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's good to be just one of a group of comedians doing warm up sometimes you do ten minutes one night I had to do six hours because things were n't ready . |
| 10 | ’ I had to do extra rehearsals because I was new and she would daub my legs with methylated spirits and iodine . |
| 11 | He asked me what I had to do each week . |
| 12 | Therefore I had to do some work last week . |
| 13 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
| 14 | Everything had a value , I had to do these jobs round the house , bring in the logs , clean the car . |
| 15 | I was even , you know , obviously you can worry about sending the stuff , this canvass three out purely because the the amount of instructions I had to do last week . |
| 16 | I had to do twenty-three miles tomorrow and then , if I let the lads carry the wheelbarrow into Reggane on Friday , I could run the final seventeen miles . |
| 17 | That 's what I had to do this morning |
| 18 | I had to do ten weeks glass cleaning . |
| 19 | In the good old days , the days I now call BC , Before Cancer , I had kept these Mafia , these hyenas at bay . |
| 20 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 21 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
| 22 | No , I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill . |
| 23 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 24 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 25 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 26 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 27 | Benjamin , however , squeezed me by the wrist and I followed him , taking some consolation in the fact that I had hidden two knives , three spoons and a small silver plate used for sweetmeats inside my jerkin . |
| 28 | But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight . |
| 29 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 30 | I had to hold some emergency meetings once , during the preparations for Billy Graham 's Euro 70 Crusade at Dortmund in 1970 . |