Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 2 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 3 | I had nowhere else to go and now I was being carried along — that ship bound for wrecking . |
| 4 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |
| 5 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 6 | I had n't even begun . |
| 7 | He 'd said too much — and I had n't even begun to cotton on . |
| 8 | Well I had n't even done games once so you know okay . |
| 9 | I had n't even grown hair on mine . |
| 10 | I mean there 's people I had n't even seen for years that were staying there in Aberdeen came along and offered help . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't even made the connection until a friend mentioned he had seen Tim in the papers with all the Princess Anne business . ’ |
| 12 | I remembered I 'd had nothing to eat or drink before leaving the house , and thought how awful that I had n't even made Toby a cup of tea before obeying my impulse to run . |
| 13 | I used to sit outside the job centre , then come home and say , " I have applied , but I had to send in an application form " , and I had n't even gone in there . |
| 14 | I had n't even flirted properly . |
| 15 | Ferreira said : ‘ It happened so quickly , by the end of the first set I felt I had n't even played one game . |
| 16 | I had n't even noticed the pickets and I can only presume that they had parted before me as I walked towards them as they still do today . |
| 17 | Yeah and Uncle Frank was saying those bushes were nice , I had n't even noticed them . |
| 18 | This came quite naturally , I had n't even thought about the gender of a knitting machine . |
| 19 | I also realised that forest photography was fraught with problems I had n't even considered , and was not at all well-equipped to deal with . |
| 20 | I had n't even dared go near Furnival Gardens since I saw my old man for the second rime . |
| 21 | I had n't even had a chance to wash it ! |
| 22 | Until I first inspected the garden I had n't even had the faintest idea that you could grow your own sago as a fence against your neighbour and then eat it ! |
| 23 | My first deadline was the end of last March , and I had n't even started thinking about it by then . |
| 24 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 25 | I had n't even looked at her properly . |
| 26 | I had n't even looked at who it was by . |
| 27 | ‘ She was a friend of a friend — I had n't even known she was coming , but one look and I was arrogant enough to decide I was going to make her mine . |
| 28 | In fact , I had n't even got to the first stair before the phone went . |
| 29 | I had n't even got the tape lined up ready to the next , the next one on . |
| 30 | I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us . |