Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
2 | Therefore I had to do some work last week . |
3 | I had to do some custard in the microwave last night , cos it might of , came out like slut |
4 | No , I had to borrow some money off Maggie this morning to pay me bill . |
5 | I had to hold some emergency meetings once , during the preparations for Billy Graham 's Euro 70 Crusade at Dortmund in 1970 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | And further , I had no idea I had lost some 10,000ft by this stage . |
8 | I HAD to spend some time comforting a distraught mother whose child was thought to have a behavioural problem . |
9 | And as it looked like Sasser had told Hurley something about me , Control passed the word that I had handled some contract work for the Defense Department in the past , just minor stuff , but that it was all finished now . |
10 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
11 | I had to presume some sort of sexual relationship between the girl and him — to do otherwise would have been naive ; but for all that there had been something much more daughterly , affectionately protective , than sexual in her glance back at him . |
12 | I had discovered some time ago that he had loved Claudia Cohn-Casson . |
13 | It had been awkward for me to ask our family doctor to prescribe it : he knew my husband and I had parted some time ago . |
14 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
15 | I had done some turning before and with help and advice I soon felt quite competent turning out my arm stumps , legs and stretcher rails . |
16 | If I had developed some measure of showmanship over the years , I felt it was not much use to me or anyone else while I sat in my office and let junior producers have all the fun . |
17 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
18 | ‘ But I had to have some excuse , you see . |
19 | My dad says I ca n't have sweets because I had to have some teeth out . |
20 | Surely I had got some things clearer since he died ? |
21 | Now she would discover I had stolen some brandy , and put water in the bottle . |
22 | I drew a peg in the bend which I had drawn some years before and knew there were a few fish there and decided on one rig only — the pole . |
23 | I remember I had to get some photos so I could get into the swimming pool for nothing . |
24 | And I knew that I had shown some ability to fight my comer . |
25 | In point of fact I had enjoyed some experience in radio network production before arriving at CBR , Vancouver . |
26 | I felt that I had to make some sort of social effort so I swung my legs off the bed and sat sheepishly on the edge . |
27 | I had to make some sort of last-ditch stand . |
28 | You yourself were good enough to say that I had earned some leave , and I want to take it . " |
29 | I had to pay some money , I just forget now , very little but er as I 've said half a dozen times now , I always wanted to do what was right , you know , and I aim to do that . |
30 | Earlier in my visit I had spotted some castings on his scrap heap which I was fairly sure belonged to a turbine . |