Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 2 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 3 | I had to guard against any display of triumph . |
| 4 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 5 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 6 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 7 | In order to test my reaction , and before I had received my copy , Michael had typed it out and sent it to me , almost as if it might be one of his own efforts , and I had reacted with some reserve . |
| 8 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 9 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 10 | For years I had stood upon those scales and willed the reading down . |
| 11 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 12 | I did it all on me own , of course Alan sat here like a bloody idiot , I said you sit there do n't get , he said I thought you were getting a cloth , I burnt all me arm trying to , jumping out , hacking me hair out there so I had to say to this bloke I said well there 's erm justice for you , he said what ? |
| 13 | It was her first visit to a city and she was taken aback by the volume of traffic — ‘ I had heard about this kind of thing , but it 's quite frightening close to like this , ’ she said , as she stood on the pavement in City Square and watched four lanes of vehicles jousting strenuously for position . |
| 14 | I had heard of this spirit creature . |
| 15 | I said that this was the first I had heard of this claim . " |
| 16 | For more than a year Lorne and I had struggled towards this moment and , contrary to all the laws of psychology , we were finding that the realization of our dreams surpassed our wildest expectations . |
| 17 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 18 | I t had been a lightning love I had felt on that bench , I was sure — too sudden , too amazing — but nevertheless love |
| 19 | Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful . |
| 20 | During my boyhood my special task in the family was to look after our cattle , sheep and goats ; therefore I had to go through this training , and afterwards taught my brothers . |
| 21 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 22 | There was no doubt I had emerged from that episode as a complete Charlie . |
| 23 | I had gone for that X-ray in a state of anxious calm . |
| 24 | I had acted with some courage and endurance — and even intelligence , I hope — in a situation many men would have found hopeless . |
| 25 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 26 | ‘ And even though most would have been quite happy to get where I had got at that age , I believe that a man is nothing unless he believes he has greater possibilities . |
| 27 | To avoid confronting him and coming to blows with him , I had skirted round these topics too long . |
| 28 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 29 | I had to come round this way this morning to get to Whitehall It 's just so chock-a-block on that new ro roadway . |
| 30 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |