Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had 17 years to go before retirement and I wanted to spend them doing what I wanted to do . |
| 2 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
| 3 | When I started writing it , I found I had more sympathy with Frank , and he started saying more and more , and Betty merged into the background . ’ |
| 4 | morning , I found I had blank spot with the old twenty pence piece . |
| 5 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 6 | When we moved we had one armchair and a sewing machine . |
| 7 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 8 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 9 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
| 10 | And in the pitch black , it seemed she had some sort of body after all ; distantly she could sense hands feeling their way , feet stumbling . |
| 11 | Really I suppose much the same way as those parents whom we interviewed who had some sort of educational knowledge or understanding of their own , since we 're both involved in education . |
| 12 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 13 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 14 | Looking into her churning heart as she stood there that night , she knew she felt an affection for the man opposite and believed he had some affection for her . |
| 15 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 16 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 17 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
| 18 | Left to her own devices , Lucy wondered what she should do next , then realised she had little option but to wait until she ran into Silas . |
| 19 | But when the prince reminded her — oh , so gently — of the deception practised upon his royal parents on Twelfth Night , Anne realized she had little choice . |
| 20 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 21 | When this happened she had one option ; there was only one other perch available : my fist . |
| 22 | A post mortem showed she had 55 injuries , including broken ribs and bruises to head , neck and body . |
| 23 | Miss Claire Cannon , prosecuting , said that tests showed he had 74 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 24 | Bowden gave a blood sample — because the breathalyser machine was defective — which showed he had 203 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood . |
| 25 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 26 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 27 | Mr Lee claimed he had personal knowledge of a case in which a person had bought and sold council houses on four occasions . |
| 28 | Quelch claimed he had verbal consent from the NRA . |
| 29 | He reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 30 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |