Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | doing in an arithmetic way or you had to use a sca , a log table . |
| 2 | that at the time of the loss or damage he or she had taken a room at the inn ; and |
| 3 | ‘ And I had to lose a good , good woman before I came to my senses . |
| 4 | He had spoken Lear 's opening lines and I had felt a shiver run through the theatre 's great darkness , because the voice was there , and the power of it , and he was suddenly not a dirty old man at all , but a great , kind , foolish and painfully honest King . |
| 5 | Even then one colour ran out and I had to use a substitute on the back , which did n't really matter in the general pattern . |
| 6 | I was co-ordinating operational activities in the Institute , an international project on commodities last year , and I had to visit a number of research institutes in Asia , erm in Africa and in the Americas , where they were conducting studies on the commodities they produced . |
| 7 | Tony and I had organized a dog sledging trip which we hoped would take us from Dividal in northern Norway through Sweden and into Finland . |
| 8 | But facts are facts , and I had heard a hound . |
| 9 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
| 10 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 11 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 12 | The day progressed and I had searched a reasonably large expanse of foreshore without much to show by way of finds apart from a few pennies and halfpennies . |
| 13 | ‘ Three of us carried you , and I was one of the three , and I had to tip a jug of water over you next morning to wake you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There were a lot of traumatic phone calls between the two of us and I had to do a lot of soul-searching . |
| 15 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 16 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 17 | And I had to ask a lad stood at front , I said can you ask him to stop at this stop please . |
| 18 | Val and I had met a party of school children with the master giving them a botany lesson as we walked , so we tagged on and saw a lot we would n't otherwise have noticed . |
| 19 | ‘ Terry and I had written a six-part series The Complete and Utter History of Britain for LWT . |
| 20 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
| 21 | Please to remember I had finished my own stint , and I had served a period on Bennett 's staff as his " horse-thief " — the recruiter and trainer , I was the Group training inspector . |
| 22 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 23 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 24 | There were only two bedrooms and I had to share a bedroom with David 's mother , a living arrangement that I just was n't used to . |
| 25 | It was rather a squash at my nana 's house because mum , and I had to share a bedroom . |
| 26 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 27 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 28 | There Claire and I had passed a pleasant week , |
| 29 | Anyway I had to photograph the man , I photographed the cow and I had to photograph a background . |
| 30 | My eyes were very bad , and I had to pay a young curate to help me with my work for the church . |