Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had eschewed politics in favour of a life practising law and enjoying the amenities of a civilised society in the way of drama , music and literature and , in a more limited and selective fashion , the visual arts . |
| 2 | At seven I had to carry ID in case bus drivers attempted to charge me adult fare . |
| 3 | Throughout the next two years I had lost interest in the game I would wait a few months and then in a space of a week I would go and have a few games it was n't until 1993 early January that I started playing regularly again I was determined to get a handicap and play in a few competitions sometime that year . |
| 4 | He had even painted the convent where I had sought consolation in my early homesickness and had agreed with Mother Joseph that I should apply to the Mother House to be accepted as a postulant and return in the course of time , if God so willed , as a professed nun to help her teach the children and grow the herbs and milk the goats and say the prayers in the cool chapel . |
| 5 | Out of school , of course , I continued my birdwatching just as I had done back in Essex , only now there was much more variety . |
| 6 | I had read Revolt in the Desert while I was at Eton , and I later read Seven Pillars of Wisdom as soon as it was published after his death . |
| 7 | They explained that only the brightest , best and most talented young people were chosen for this sacrifice and that ever since , I had associated success in life with being sacrificed . |
| 8 | He ended his inscription : " When I had established peace in the lands subject to me , I came to Adulis and sacrificed to Zeus , Ares and Poseidon , on behalf of those who voyage on the sea . " |
| 9 | Always I had found magic in small islands , and here was one with a full-rigged galleon of a cathedral as if moored alongside . |
| 10 | Since I had , naturally , got rid of all my Belgian francs , I had to convert sterling in your Ostend office at a somewhat unfavourable rate ( 47.5 Fr to the pound ; the day 's tourist rate quoted in the newspaper was 49.5 , and the previous day I got 50.1 in an Antwerp bank ) . |
| 11 | By my first week in-country ( my third on mefloquine ) I had reduced sensation in my legs , was waking up with a start from severe nightmares which subjectively had lasted for hours ( in reality for only 15 min ) , and occasionally wondering what it would be like to jump the eight floors from my hotel room . |
| 12 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 13 | ‘ After the death of Sicelo I decided to meet with a lawyer and asked him to put down on record that I had taken part in a film . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ It felt like someone had stabbed ice in my face , then my right eye went black . |
| 15 | Nicky responded because , probably for the first time in his life , someone had shown trust in him and had treated him with respect . |
| 16 | No small group of favourites emerged to monopolize access to the king or royal patronage : even the Hainaulters at court attracted little of the obloquy that surrounded the Savoyards and Henry III 's court , and the families which had suffered forfeiture in the political violence between 1322 and 1330 were gradually restored . |
| 17 | His statements on the latter issue threatened to revive the scandal which had followed discovery in February of the sale [ see p. 38019 ] . |
| 18 | All the HZDS and Slovak National Party deputies and most of those from the former communist Party of the Democratic Left voted in favour ; all the Christian Democratic Movement ( KDH ) deputies , which had lost power in the June election , voted against . |
| 19 | All the HZDS and Slovak National Party deputies and most of those from the former communist Party of the Democratic Left voted in favour ; all the Christian Democratic Movement ( KDH ) deputies , which had lost power in the June election , voted against . |
| 20 | Returning to a job which they had already ‘ used up ’ or which had lost value in their eyes |
| 21 | The talks were attended by all the other parties which had secured representation in the National Assembly [ see p. 39129 ] . |
| 22 | The Garotter 's Act became law on 13 July 1863 when , after a speedy passage through its readings , it joined the rump of archaic flogging laws which had escaped abolition in 1861 . |
| 23 | On the question of harmonizing Europe 's widely varying rates of value added tax ( VAT ) , which had aroused disagreement in the past , the Council of Ministers agreed in December 1990 on a new system of collecting VAT with effect from 1992 [ see p. 37925 ] . |
| 24 | The People 's National Party ( PNP ) was returned to power in a general election on Feb. 9 , 1989 , winning 45 seats and defeating the Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ) , which had gained office in 1980 . |
| 25 | On March 22 an anti-racist demonstration was attended by between 65,000 and 150,000 people , protesting in particular against the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the right-wing Flemish nationalist Vlaams Blok which had gained ground in the November election . |
| 26 | Not marrying , he had set up a small business in specialised agricultural machinery — which had gone bust in 1975 . |
| 27 | Tension between Georgia and its autonomous republic of Abkhazia ( which had declared independence in July — see p. 39018-19 ) escalated into armed conflict in August , causing over 100 deaths . |
| 28 | The testimony of abandoned women to Henry Mayhew in the mid-nineteenth century indicated the breakdown of traditional contexts which had ensured marriage in the event of an unplanned pregnancy . |
| 29 | In April Cuba also jammed Radio Martí , which had begun transmission in 1985 [ see p. 33917 ] . |
| 30 | The government continued its crackdown on extreme right-wing organizations in December , following the racist killings in Mölln in November which had caused outrage in Germany and abroad [ see p. 39208 ] . |