Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 2 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 3 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 4 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 5 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 6 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 7 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 8 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 9 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 10 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 11 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 12 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 13 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 14 | And yet , until Irina described me as bad-tempered , I had considered myself a peaceable man , a listener and an observer , occasionally a counsellor , even a mediator . |
| 15 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 16 | I had proved myself the fittest by the mere act of survival . |
| 17 | I set off from Beirut for Jerusalem in the late autumn of 1980 ; and the moment I entered Rafi Horowitz 's office in Jerusalem , I realised that I had set myself no easy assignment . |
| 18 | ‘ I had forgotten what a silly little girl you still are . ’ |
| 19 | Time to fast from it That session with She-She had done me no good at all . |
| 20 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 21 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 22 | She had given her a tiny dose of medicine just before the explosion , and now Julia closed her eyes . |
| 23 | She had given herself a fair amount of time to get to Luke 's , and if she left the motorway at the next junction and did n't hang around she 'd be only a little late at the most . |
| 24 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 25 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 26 | The second bullet followed almost immediately , this time in front of her , and she had to fling herself the last few feet , landing heavily against the side of the corrugated iron door . |
| 27 | She had made her a cool and sweet-smelling bed of grasses inside a circle of powder to keep away ants and other insects . |
| 28 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 29 | She had done him a beautiful hand-painted one the year before with ‘ Lots of love ’ on it . |
| 30 | She had brought herself a new swimsuit but after she had changed she 'd stared critically at herself in the mirror in the changing-room . |