Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course I had to get another lens , a piece of glass about the same size , in order to grind it , because you grind the glass with another piece of glass with a grit in between . |
| 2 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 3 | It must have bewildered the matron , who watched practically every mouthful I ate , that by the end of term I had lost another two pounds . |
| 4 | That early hour also avoided having to go to the schools to take children , an action which had caused such controversy in November 1990 . |
| 5 | Captain Tupper , calling off a strike of fishermen in which he was engaged in August 1914 declared simply that " our fight was not with the employers but with another force which had attacked all that was ours " . |
| 6 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 7 | It was his fault she had to go all the way back to the house . |
| 8 | Though I was a student of literature and , I believe , a reasonably good teacher , and loved my work , and though I was , moreover , a serious poet who had gained some small recognition in circles even outside my own University , my writing life was not confined to poems and articles , or even lectures . |
| 9 | Blaise Cendrars , the vagabond poet who had shared many a bottle with Modigliani , wrote these mysterious lines as preface : |
| 10 | In her state of extreme nervous tension she had clutched those dollars so tightly that they 'd almost disintegrated . |
| 11 | Maria shook her head angrily , aware of the futility of trying to explain the dilemma she had faced all those years ago to a man whose self-centredness precluded his ever having had to make a choice between his own interests and someone else 's . |
| 12 | It was odd to think that even without his talent she had inherited this from her father . |
| 13 | He had installed her in a cottage on East Street and in the last few days before the wedding she had worked all hours to spicken the place up and turn it into a home for him . |
| 14 | She had been a bustling energetic woman , always in a hurry , always busy , but here in her last will and testament she had uncovered some of the disappointment of her life , which no one had ever guessed . |
| 15 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 16 | Senghor himself had spent much of the 1930s after graduating from university as a teacher and well known poet in France . |
| 17 | She had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling that he was not referring to the fight which had followed that little incident . |
| 18 | It was a verdict which had fired many a nationalistically minded but hitherto passive young Irishman to join the IRA , and it had prodded Denis into convincing himself that the time had come for him to stop wavering and take an active role in his country 's struggle . |
| 19 | The case which had prompted these remarks involved a 13-year-old schoolboy , John Bird from Camden , who had shot an 18-year-old greengrocer 's son in the arm . |
| 20 | And the scope of that work I had enrolled all the the lady workers both on the confectionery side and the dispatch side and that made it what you would term as a closed shop . |
| 21 | The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day . |
| 22 | But Louise was not a coward , even as a little girl I had understood this . |
| 23 | As a small child I had known all the words of Masefield 's poem , ‘ Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine … ’ |
| 24 | Existing East German laws on abortion would continue to apply for two years pending a new law to be passed by the all-German parliament ( thus resolving the issue which had caused most dispute among the parties at the end of negotiations on the treaty ) . |
| 25 | After all , it was , if not the crux of the whole enterprise , an extremely important component , because his purpose in this was no eccentric whim but a sincere manifestation of the philosophy which had pervaded most of his adult life and which was clear to all who knew him — namely , the conservation of our precious resources . |
| 26 | This represented a return to the financial dependency on a parent which had characterised these carers ' younger , pre-adult days : |
| 27 | Serious naturalists could sprinkle their descriptions of the internal organization of new species with references to the skill of the Creator who had designed such complex living structures . |
| 28 | Peter Baxter , producer and cricket-lover who had done much to restore outside sports broadcasting , confessed himself happy . |
| 29 | The proportion who had considered any type of credit other than the one they used was only 6 per cent of this sample . |
| 30 | And why did it tear her apart because it was fitzAlan who had said those terrible things to her ? |