Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I first had to go down and ask . |
| 2 | And you all had to go over that side . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you two had agreed to settle your differences , ’ she commented after David came into the office for some records , then left without saying a word . |
| 4 | We each had to sit in our own chair . |
| 5 | To assess our machines we each had to knit a tension piece in white and send it in . |
| 6 | To be sure , we had a great Empire — we British had conquered far and wide . |
| 7 | After we left the police station we all had to go to hospital ; we were off work for weeks . |
| 8 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 9 | It was like a factory line to which we all had to conform . |
| 10 | The odds , as they well knew , were against them finishing even one tour , but war is a horrible business and we all had to do the best we could in discouraging circumstances . |
| 11 | Anyone sitting down for extensive periods ( as we all had to do in our school days ) would have to tense many of the body 's muscles in order to sit up straight . |
| 12 | Halfway through , Corporal Vigno decided that we were slacking so we all had to do press-ups on the gravel , perched on our clenched fists . |
| 13 | No me mother she she did work hard well we all had to do in them days . |
| 14 | And er we all had to do an action plan at the end of the course , and then three months later |
| 15 | She was only about five feet tall , thin and blonde with a bony London face , and her stick-like legs were not enhanced by the thick , grey Waaf stockings and flat lace-up shoes we all had to wear . |
| 16 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 17 | Every morning before we went to school , we all had to take a bucket appropriate to our size and run a relay from the communal tap to the barrels until they were full . |
| 18 | I knew that we all had sold a fair number of tickets to friends , relatives , colleagues , in fact , anyone who would buy them , but it would n't be enough to fill one tier . |
| 19 | We went off and we got to a steep hill , we all had to get out |
| 20 | Each nationality had contributed a song which we all had to learn . |
| 21 | When she did this we all had to line up into two lines which were the juniors and infants . |
| 22 | For the last , steepest section we all had to climb up a couloir on foot . |
| 23 | When the tide turned , we all had to struggle back to the large Irrawaddy steamer again . |
| 24 | We all had to warm up again later and I did n't have the necessary background for that ; when we finally ran , Buster was the winner , Drew second and I came in third . |
| 25 | Although we had bucked the recessionary trend in the previous year , demand for carpets was even more depressed , and in a fiercely competitive market place , we all had to work harder for our share of the smaller ‘ cake ’ . |
| 26 | We all had to stand up in turn in front of the class and give a short talk , followed by a question-and-answer session . |
| 27 | We all had to help in the dairy . |
| 28 | I 've never seen him go so mad , far worse than the usual Saturday night when he had lost all his money gambling and came home so drunk that we all had to hide under the bed . |
| 29 | Of course , we all had to admit that the 25SE was built well , using ‘ proper ’ looking materials , components and hardware , something the Americans are so expert at and where so many British amp manufacturers fall down . |
| 30 | We all had to find a partner and make up imaginary names . |