Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] had [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But I found I had little idea how to set about producing a crime short story . |
2 | 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 . ’ |
3 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
4 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | But frankly , if I thought about that at all , I imagined he had some side line , painting people 's houses perhaps or cleaning windows . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
13 | 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 ’ . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
16 | Many students realised they had little hope of going abroad and sought instead other escape routes from their situation . |
17 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
18 | I never felt I had enough food when I was pregnant . |
19 | I have been ever since I knew I had this trouble . ’ |
20 | I thought I had some information here on prices I ca n't seem to find it no no , ca n't find it , never , never mind I 've got some figures here that looks at erm the growth in in trade , er it 's quoting , it says between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine the volume of agricultural trade grew by twenty six percent alright , however that was that represented one third of the growth in manufacturers so agricultural trade is rising but it 's rising much less rapidly than manufacturers here are the prices , at the same time , so between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty nine er food export prices fell the prices actually fell from eleven percent , t , by eleven percent whereas the unit value of manufactured exports , so essentially the prices of manufactured exports rose on average by twenty percent okay so over the , over that period agricultural prices were actually falling in real terms but if we widen erm s the window that we 're looking at , erm , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen er say over the post war period or if we er go back to the beginning of the century , agricultural prices probably have n't fallen erm but relative to manufacturing they certainly have okay . |
21 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
22 | At 22 , Lottie felt she had few qualifications for such a sensitive job , but after his time with the Kindertransporte Freddie was more confident . |
23 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
24 | ‘ I saw you had some books on birds . ’ |
25 | I thought you had more self-control . |
26 | ‘ I thought you had more courage . ’ |
27 | It was obvious that they , too , had realised what a professional job it was , something reflected in their searching questions as to whether she thought she had any enemies . |
28 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
29 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
30 | I never knew we had any baronets attending St Matthew 's . ’ |