Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | hiding Joe remembers : ‘ In my early days I had a big following in Barnsley , bigger even than at home in Bradford and I played Alex there one night for a few pounds . |
| 2 | But by my late teens I had come to find this attitude repellent , and knew that I was never going to fulfil my parents ' expectations . |
| 3 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 4 | On top of all my other problems I had something of an upheaval on the domestic front when my daughter and her two children had to move in with us for a while . |
| 5 | Through its low branches I had a latticed view of the buildings that made up my home . |
| 6 | In all her born days she had never heard anything like it . |
| 7 | In her teenage years she had thought it out carefully . |
| 8 | In their later writings they had been forced to acknowledge , in the light of much critical evidence , that their biologically determined criminal was only one of a variety of types : their theory had become eclectic and multi-factorial . |
| 9 | In her wildest dreams she had n't imagined that Rob 's wedding day would bring this ! |
| 10 | From their discarded belongings she had made a museum that recorded forty years of family history . |
| 11 | Her good clothes she had left behind when she had decided to downgrade her status . |
| 12 | In all her ten years she had always had one or other of her brothers watching out for her . |
| 13 | To reach the ancient Norman edifice with its pointed windows he had to pass through the bell tower , open to the world at both ends . |
| 14 | She paused for a moment remembering how from her earliest days she had sat with her father in the small shed working the leather . |
| 15 | But ever since the day when she had faced her own fears she had held fast to her principles . |
| 16 | It had only one skilled male dancer on its strength , Lionel Luyt , and in the first of their two programmes he had to partner the ballerina in the second act of Swan Lake , then dance both the Prince and Bluebird in Aurora 's Wedding ( with just three minutes to change costumes ) and finally lead the cast of Prince Igor . |
| 17 | In their four meetings she had never questioned him about his job , had seldom mentioned the power station except , as on this afternoon , to complain half seriously that it spoilt the view . |
| 18 | And the reason why the Greeks should have needed such consolation is that in their Dionysiac ecstasies they had looked into the painful essence of life . |
| 19 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 20 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 21 | In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion . |
| 22 | In his wildest nightmares he had never thought it would come to this . |
| 23 | By now he had come to symbolize the Montparnasse adventure , and even in his worst moments he had a glamour about him , a sense of intensity , that excited envy and admiration . |
| 24 | Among his many activities he had founded School Lacrosse and arranged Sixth Form walks for many years ; during the War he tended the School 's allotments by the Fives Courts , before the playing fields were laid out . |
| 25 | J. Roberts regretted that due to his many commitments he had not been able to play as active a role in the Society during the past year as he would have wished . |
| 26 | In all his sixty years he had bought , sold , bred , and trained some hundreds of horses . |
| 27 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 28 | When he reached maturity , we would be in a position to know precisely which of his behavioral patterns he had inherited and which he had learned . |
| 29 | While indulging his melancholy thoughts he had taken care to position himself in a nobly pensive attitude , with the candle at his side lending a glistening aureole to his dark profile . |
| 30 | During his gun-running activities he had met Jacques Doriot , a renegade French communist who had turned ardent fascist . |