Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you know when I when I c last time I came from France and I came a came across the widest part of the channel er I got done once I had a B written on my board and then they come and crossed it out . |
| 2 | By then she 'd had our second child for which I got blamed as she had n't wanted to be pregnant again . |
| 3 | As I climbed , I tried to remember if I had shut the Wheel Room door . |
| 4 | I tried to remember if there had been a dog with him , but it was difficult to concentrate . |
| 5 | ‘ It was much easier than I 'd expected though we had very good weather , sunny and dry all the way . |
| 6 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 7 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 8 | Such changes would not have been inhibited necessarily by the teacher action , but none of the teachers I interviewed claimed that they had changed their methods to any great extent . |
| 9 | Driving to a knitting meeting with Bryan our Club President , I happened to mention that I had acquired an old Empisal 100 for knitting thicker yarns and slub cottons . |
| 10 | I turned to find that somebody had capsized in the shallowest part of the river . |
| 11 | I began to wonder if I had halitosis or a snotty nose , or green eyes , or a squint — surely I am not so unattractive ! |
| 12 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
| 13 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |
| 14 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 15 | I could not find him , and I began to hope that he had not followed us to the hotel . |
| 16 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 17 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 18 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 19 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 20 | In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , ’ he admitted , ‘ and so , perhaps , would I have done if you had not come . |
| 22 | ‘ And what would I have found if I had ? |
| 23 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 24 | Most days she would , sooner or later , walk down the lawn to examine her plants and I learned to wait until she had done this before myself settling in the summer-house . |
| 25 | And when I got Dawn , I did sense that I had formed an almost human relationship with her . |
| 26 | Except that I thought you 'd understand — and perhaps I did think that you had a right to know why I feel the way I do about … about anything permanent . ’ |
| 27 | The amounts of exercise I did meant that I had to eat more than my father ! |
| 28 | I did understand that we had different levels of consciousness and that we normally run on what are known as beta-waves . |
| 29 | At some point I did wonder whether I had more humiliation and torture to look forward to . |
| 30 | I did wonder if he had been in his cups before we opened the wine but he assured me he had not . ’ |