Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 2 | I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse . |
| 3 | During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people . |
| 4 | I had lived in the midst of the Amazons without knowing it . |
| 5 | I admit , you and I did rather live our years together in the shadow of Jean-Claude , as I had lived in the shadow of Montaine . |
| 6 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 7 | One queer I had to slug in the face and jump out of his car . ‘ |
| 8 | Until that day John Russell was just a name I had written in the Division account book a few times during the past year . |
| 9 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 10 | They crashed through their set as if they were in a competition to see who could get through the most songs in the shortest time , sounding like an unrehearsed version of the group Charlie and I had seen in the Nashville . |
| 11 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 12 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 13 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 14 | from the back seat the voice of the colonel I had seen in the subway said , ‘ Wo n't you get in , English ? ’ |
| 15 | A tall thin guy I had seen in the house before crawled on all fours in front of the television to get at Nicola 's joint . |
| 16 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 17 | All those I had loved in the past — Richard , Marjorie , Alain , Madeleine , Leo , Muriel , Alan , Sandro , Erich , Jordi — all loved more or less in vain , hopelessly — were now without substance or meaning . |
| 18 | I knew I should not miss that appointment with him and I had to succeed in the match , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I had run in the trials for the European Junior Championships and finished fifth in the 100 metres in 10.6 seconds , wind assisted . |
| 20 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 21 | I was in lane 1 , which I found strange considering the positions and times I had achieved in the semi-final . |
| 22 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 23 | On that first Broadway night I had stood in the wings where he was absent-mindedly fondling the breasts of his frizzy-haired admirer , and to me he had looked just like any other dirty old man ; but then , as the royal fanfare sounded , he had twitched his grey gown , given me a wink , and walked into the stage 's glare . |
| 24 | I had stood in the garden , and the wind , like a dressmaker , fitted my clothes to me , cold and indifferent . |
| 25 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 26 | But I had to go in the loft . |
| 27 | I had to go in the office every Friday night and I was only earning about two pounds seventeen and six a week and they use and Deputy Harbourmaster , Captain , he say , how much you earned this week he say , three pound , I 'm asking you four he say , well they 'd take it off you and er you 'd be paying it now , takes about six months , and he old Harbourmaster see you about the quay he said . |
| 28 | So the two of us went off to Peel and er anyway they paid us , they paid for our lunch and er and so that was alright and of course I had to go in the witness box , you see and swear on the bible , you know , the whole truth , nothing but the truth , you see . |
| 29 | I had to dive in the corner and make like a garden gnome … ’ |
| 30 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |