Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
| 2 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 3 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 4 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 5 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 6 | As a present I had received a large book of complex Legion history written in difficult French . |
| 7 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 8 | It was a landmark I had passed a thousand times and yet had never properly explored . |
| 9 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 10 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 11 | It was a tragedy for Everton because the concentration which had hallmarked a disciplined defensive performance , lapsed for one fatal moment . |
| 12 | Pérez promised , however , to promote closer co-operation with the DEA which had opened a branch office in the western city of Maracaibo , but maintained a smaller presence there than in neighbouring countries . |
| 13 | It was as if in that short distance from the Upper East Side she had crossed a magic dividing line into another country . |
| 14 | An Arabic-speaking Tunisian-American , Habib was the son of Phillip Habib , a former government agent who had played a big part in breaking up the French Connection in Marseilles during the 1960s . |
| 15 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 16 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 17 | I did n't see anything inevitable about an affair with a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy . |
| 18 | A journalist who had hitched a lift was killed , Fitzroy Maclean ended up in hospital for three months and Randolph Churchill had to be invalided back to England with a back injury . |
| 19 | The harshest comment comes from an illiterate Yorkshire collier who had suffered a bitter , loveless childhood , tormented by a cruel brother . |
| 20 | To sit down in a cafe you had to buy a cup of tea . |
| 21 | In 1971 a military coup brought in General Tren Son Taim ( a Taiwanese refugee who had led a tiny fascist force on the islands during the Second World War ) , and Washington lifted the trade embargo . |
| 22 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 23 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |
| 24 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 25 | From her period of residential living she had developed a particular rapport with Henry . |
| 26 | The plot , insofar as one could discern it , was both labyrinthine and self-cancellingly ambiguous , built round an interview in a psychiatric hospital between a journalist and the grief-obsessed widow of a German professor who had bequeathed a videotape casting doubt on the official version of Hess 's death . |
| 27 | For the first time in his life , Peter found her pitiful , a tiny figure who had made a cage of her routines and spent her life staring through the bars at the glorious unpredictability of the world outside . |
| 28 | This was only a temporary setback to the Long March veteran who had survived a number of purges over previous decades when ‘ redness ’ was valued more than ‘ expertise ’ . |
| 29 | Religion there had seemed a natural , relaxed concern . |
| 30 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |