Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 2 | Before they gave me a bike I had to earn it , I had to work in the garden . |
| 3 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 4 | For some time I had wanted to move further from London with its many social distractions , and now with the half million words of notes I had brought back with me from my world tour waiting to be distilled into a book , I felt the need more than ever . |
| 5 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 6 | I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway . |
| 7 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 8 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 9 | At Eton I had passed School Certificate , but without the credit in Latin which was indispensable for getting to Oxford . |
| 10 | At Eton I had enjoyed the Field Game but loathed cricket , and had not played soccer or rugger since my preparatory school . |
| 11 | At Eton I had read every book I could lay hands on about the Zulus , about Abyssinia and about the rise and fall of the Dervish empire in the Sudan . |
| 12 | At Eton I had gone each day to Spottiswoode 's bookshop to follow the course of this war in The Times . |
| 13 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 14 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 15 | The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek . |
| 16 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 17 | The story I had heard was that , instead of John Philip Sousa being the great all-American bandmaster he was really an Englishman , born in Gosport , Hants . |
| 18 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 19 | That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates . |
| 20 | In the end I had got just enough to make the short film , but it did n't tell the story I had hoped to tell , and I was angered by my subject 's persecution — by the way the whole species was treated . |
| 21 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |
| 22 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 23 | For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware . |
| 24 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
| 25 | In fact , under my contract I had no control over the cover . |
| 26 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 27 | That was in case I had a ‘ hypo ’ , ’ she recalls . |
| 28 | Oh yes , she was an exception ; but physically she was not exactly … … in any case I had determined never to do Salome with a girl who dances . |
| 29 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 30 | Then a Rate 1 back onto 210 and descend towards the pilot ; the sun was low and that was causing me some problems ; seventy knots , no flaps in case I had to move fast , 100 feet — hold it . |