Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 2 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 3 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 4 | Well I had to do that agenda when Hugh was n't here , so |
| 5 | When I had to do that trip on my own . |
| 6 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
| 7 | He asked me what I had to do each week . |
| 8 | Therefore I had to do some work last week . |
| 9 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
| 10 | Everything had a value , I had to do these jobs round the house , bring in the logs , clean the car . |
| 11 | That 's what I had to do this morning |
| 12 | In the good old days , the days I now call BC , Before Cancer , I had kept these Mafia , these hyenas at bay . |
| 13 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 14 | but I had to lie any way cos otherwise she would be more annoyed , I was going , I , say I go , I |
| 15 | No , I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill . |
| 16 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 17 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 18 | But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight . |
| 19 | I had to hold some emergency meetings once , during the preparations for Billy Graham 's Euro 70 Crusade at Dortmund in 1970 . |
| 20 | It would nt hurt to say ‘ Yes I m sory to leave Leeds and the supporters behind … but the club needed the money and if I had to join another club it would be Blackburn ( and onto the usual bullshit ) ’ Fuck me even Cantona said something nice about us . |
| 21 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 22 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 23 | I had blocked those thoughts . |
| 24 | I had to evaluate this stuff and sit on his case because he was always behind with everything . |
| 25 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 26 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
| 27 | Jeremy Isaacs and I had know each other for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ It was for you that I had to leave that hotel suite and not return until daylight . ’ |
| 29 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 30 | As an urban creature I had dubbed these conditions ‘ inconvenient ’ and ‘ primitive ’ . |