Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 2 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 3 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 5 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 6 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 7 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 8 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
| 9 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 10 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 11 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 12 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 13 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 14 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 15 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 16 | The monastic reform movement did not reach north-west Mercia either , yet this area had not been much influenced by Scandinavian settlement , and it did eventually extend into East Anglia , which had to some degree been so affected . |
| 17 | These phrases do , however , have the ring of truth in an aesthetic sense — or rather there was an aesthetic process involved which had to some extent its own story . |
| 18 | And the gap which had to some extent been there from the beginning in popular consciousness between ‘ Hitler 's war ’ for racial empire and territorial aggrandisement , and the patriotic defence of the ‘ Fatherland ’ was widening . |
| 19 | We received a call from the hospital , which had by this time received the results of the X-rays . |
| 20 | Initially at least , NHS resources were not being passed across to the local authorities and the voluntary organizations active within the Riverside DHA which had by this stage succeeded Victoria DHA in another reorganization . |
| 21 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 22 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 23 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 24 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 25 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 26 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |
| 27 | She had simply , and thoughtlessly , intended to kill what she had in any case thought of as an insincere proposal . |
| 28 | Early on , after Waite 's capture , when he was still separated by a wall from the others , Anderson , who had at that point had spent 2,000 days in captivity , writes of Waite , ‘ I knew he was brave , risking his life for us . |
| 29 | This leads to a further conclusion that these wares were brought to the site by the Catuvellauni , who had at that time embarked on westward expansion . |
| 30 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |