Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 2 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 3 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
| 4 | Erm Foxes in the Garden with the R S P C A photos I had rejected yesterday as well , so that was a good day . |
| 5 | I had to explain more than once that that was what I did — go to bed early — until he stopped asking . |
| 6 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
| 8 | Looking back on it I could not figure out what went wrong as I had done exactly as instructed but nobody had ever really said much about fallen trees or currents and especially not in such a small part of the river . |
| 9 | For the first time in all my life I had done right because I wanted to do right . |
| 10 | A nice man I had met more than once before . |
| 11 | When Eritrea achieved de facto independence last year , 80 cars went from DC to New Jersey to the home of the veteran Eritrean labour leader Woldeab Wolde Mariam , whom I had met more than 20 years ago in exile in Aden , and brought him to the Washington community church , Saint Selassie . |
| 12 | I had to sit there because |
| 13 | The last eight miles had been the worst up to that point , and yet I had gone faster than ever before . |
| 14 | I had to know exactly where he was in the room . |
| 15 | Most attention concentrated on the last sentence of my statement which I had inserted just before I stood up in the House of Commons : |
| 16 | I did my best not to give away anything of my exasperation on discovering that a task I had thought all but behind me was in fact still there unassaulted before me . |
| 17 | There was one that I had to throw away because it was erm |
| 18 | ‘ I was kicked out by my landlord and put in this hostel which was just awful and I had to get away so I came here — I do n't know why , really , I … ’ |
| 19 | I had worked hard while I was on Amantani , reconstructing the bones of my experiences without the satisfaction of cradling them in apposite language . |
| 20 | I had to laugh though cos I was talking chap at work and they 'd sent round this erm this form right , to fill in about your opinion about the company and everything . |
| 21 | Sure enough , it was one I had ringed less than 24 hours previously , and it had been found drowned in a bucket of custard ! |
| 22 | I had to cover more than fifteen miles a day . |
| 23 | I think too that because I had postponed rather than rejected sexuality , the latter model was even less acceptable . |
| 24 | And I I had to walk past cos everyone else moved away . |
| 25 | Madge and I had discussed beforehand whether or not she should promise to obey her husband , and had agreed that this promise should be omitted . |
| 26 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 27 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 28 | Already that morning she had drunk more than the weekly average for women she 'd noticed displayed on a chart in the Summertown Health Centre waiting-room . |
| 29 | She set to work on Emily 's shoes , pride insisted that she finish the job she had begun even if she was never paid for it . |
| 30 | Knowing her sister well , Fabia could only marvel then that when Barney was , by the sound of it , so desperately ill , Cara appeared to be making every effort to rise above the shocking news she had received less than an hour ago . |