Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately some commentators claimed that she and Prince Charles had succeeded in mending their marriage , while others sniffed cynically that in private nothing had changed . |
| 2 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 3 | Sorry I had to desert you yesterday . ’ |
| 4 | When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry I had to deliver it , but there it is . ’ |
| 6 | Ta sorry I had to drag you out here on this weather . |
| 7 | I heard him whispering to my master all evening , and I was sorry I had laughed at him . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry I had to throw old Rex to the wolves back there , ’ he said , without a trace of conviction . |
| 9 | I 'm sorry I had to spring it on you like that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm only sorry I had to bring you out in it . ’ |
| 11 | Erm it has become worse in a way that er we did , I did experience some sort of er , er racial intolerance er with the youth , but the middle-aged and the er m older people were very , very er tolerant I had to ask er when I could n't find my way , ask my way to certain places and er there was an that er the lady just walked by me er with me and she , she said I 'll have to walk with you you ca n't find it . |
| 12 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 13 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 14 | After that I had to stop and check myself . |
| 15 | But it was her last film and after that I had to make do with Jean Simmons in Desirée . |
| 16 | After that I had to share Jacob with Rachel . |
| 17 | There was , the there were two they had that I had got . |
| 18 | So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes . |
| 19 | ‘ But I got so depressed I had to have it cut short . |
| 20 | That was when Buckley arrived from Kettering , with Grimsby in Division Four , just seven players on the staff and a debt of £850,000 that someone had forgotten to mention at the job interview . |
| 21 | She kept them in the other day because she sa , erm or something need to keep the , we think it was them anyway with Mrs kept one group in cos erm , she said that someone had nicked off with her pen or something and it was underneath the desk , it had rolled off the desk ! |
| 22 | That someone had come from abroad — be it Calais , Cairo , Boulogne or Bucharest : they scarcely distinguished . |
| 23 | At the end of all this I had lost about two stones and for the first time in my life , felt very nervy . |
| 24 | He had taken me on to smooth his path , and this I had done . |
| 25 | This I had seen happen in the lives of others , resulting in the despairing situation of looking on hopelessly at all the work and tender loving care lavished on a place being relentlessly returned to rampaging nature , and unable to muster the physical strength and mental resolve to do anything about it . |
| 26 | It can be quite difficult working at something with needle and yarn with your eyes glued to a diagram but this I had to do . |
| 27 | This I had noticed , but had given little thought to . |
| 28 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |
| 29 | Teachers found me irresponsible and anti-social , and for this I had to suffer . |
| 30 | Any entertaining I had to do in London was in the United Services Club . |