Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’
5 I lost any faith I had in Taylor the day he named the side for the game vs Norway .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball .
9 The hair I had watched from above had become disturbed when I lifted her , so that it shaded the line of her left cheek .
10 It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 That was the story I had later from one of her flatmates .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness .
17 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 .
18 ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state .
19 In fact , under my contract I had no control over the cover .
20 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 .
21 That was in case I had a ‘ hypo ’ , ’ she recalls .
22 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 .
23 I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian .
24 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 .
25 ‘ Anyway , that night they put a night-light in my room , in case I had nightmares , but the shadows were even worse than the darkness , and so I just lay there , under the covers , quivering with fear thanks to these damn dragons , and I wished Ken was back from University because sometimes I was allowed to sleep in his room , and I wished I was allowed a torch in my room , but I was n't , and I was wondering about crying really loudly , because that would bring mum and dad in to see me , but then what did I say was wrong ?
26 I could remember one case I had , er he 'd be about eight .
27 Just in case I had n't made this absolutely clear , I added , ‘ I 'll never forgive you and I 'll never apologize to you and I 'll never do anything you say . ’
28 He yelled this in case I had trouble hearing him from six inches away .
29 My erm , when I was little , I used to have this reoccuring dream , and it was really , really scary , and I just , I used to get really scared , I did n't want to go to sleep , in case I had this reoccuring dream , and what it was , was erm , I do n't know , I , I think I did n't like swimming when I was little , so that might , what sparked it off , and I could n't swim for ages
30 After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now .
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