Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 2 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 3 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 4 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 5 | Some months earlier he , my step-mother and I had moved into a bungalow at 1122 Henleaze Avenue . |
| 6 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 7 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 8 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 9 | I had to sleep in a car for two weeks . |
| 10 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 11 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 12 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |
| 13 | The night before in the main plaza I had loitered beneath a canopy which had held table football and prize shooting to the pound of rock music . |
| 14 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 16 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 17 | But data stores , I had stumbled on a case of data suppression . |
| 18 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 19 | It seemed to me that in Mr White Face I had stumbled upon an evolutionary path paralleling — rivalling — our accepted one ; that this path sprang from a small ground mammal ( possibly tusked ) very different from the arboreal tarsier-like creature from which Homo sapiens has developed . |
| 20 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 21 | I had to put on a brave face and try to show him that I was not worried , but when he appeared I was shocked at how much he had changed even in such a short time . |
| 22 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 23 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 24 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 25 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 26 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 27 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 28 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 29 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 30 | Marlies thought I had fallen off a ladder fixing a letter G from the conference slogan of that year , ‘ Britain Winning Through ’ . |