Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had reached the 11th but was a long way off the green . |
| 2 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 3 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 4 | I had survived the second lap but an ordinary rest would be inadequate now . |
| 5 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 6 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
| 7 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |
| 8 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 9 | Er on appointment , like other recruits , I had to serve the first month on night duty . |
| 10 | I hit the first man with the wooden end of my gun and he fell down , but I had to shoot the second man . |
| 11 | Obviously , I had started the next craze . |
| 12 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 13 | I had enjoyed the last two months greatly but the journey , though arduous , had involved no real danger . |
| 14 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 15 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 16 | She had fulfilled the first part of the scenario . |
| 17 | Well , to hell with you , sweetheart , she railed , and , her pride once more up in arms , a certainty in her head that she had seen the last of Ven for that night , she rocketed from her bed , took a shower , and got dressed . |
| 18 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 19 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 20 | Brown Owl , moving quickly , placed Brownie after Brownie in position , until she had formed the first human letter : — |
| 21 | She was n't scared , not even when she was half-way up the path , dark yews all around her , and heard the sound she had heard the first time . |
| 22 | She was wearing the coat with all the buttons and buckles that she had worn the first time I saw her outside Kaama 's flat . |
| 23 | ‘ Ay , ’ rejoined Mrs Beattie , realising she had lost the first round , ‘ I was just on my wey up to see Thomasina . ’ |
| 24 | Without realizing it , she had reached the Second Level . |
| 25 | When she told Hawk of her dream , he told her she had reached the First Level . |
| 26 | She had reached the Fifth Level , and she could no longer go back . |
| 27 | When the mask came off , she knew she had reached the Fourth Level . |
| 28 | Red-eyed and hollow inside , she was appalled when he told her she had reached the Third Level . |
| 29 | The recent spell of warm weather was holding and Julie Murchison was feeling good in spite of the fact that she had spent the last hour in her Mother 's sick room . |
| 30 | A woman told how she had spent the last fifteen years of her life ‘ allowing my husband to make choices for me ’ . |