Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I had taken them off . ’ |
| 2 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |
| 3 | He also had difficulty remembering his lines , and eventually I had to write his lines on boards , on bottles , on door frames — anything he had to pass by or pick up . |
| 4 | Eventually I had to get my mail elsewhere . |
| 5 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 6 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 7 | So naturally I had to get it with and it was heavier th I do n't know how much it weighed , I I I got it by the way , in my barn in farm in Indiana , one of the last relics of Brothers . |
| 8 | For a start , Oliver would always provide the girls and I would always provide the money , though naturally I had to slip him his half of it beforehand so the girls would n't know who was really paying . |
| 9 | If only I had told you straight away the appointment was a hoax … ’ |
| 10 | Oh ma'am if only I had shown myself strong in the face of temptation ! |
| 11 | I had never been able to do that , not with such unselfconscious pleasure , perhaps because deep down I had resented his existence which was preventing me doing all the marvellous things I had intended to do in the world . |
| 12 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 13 | So I had to borrow it off Maggie . |
| 14 | So I had to use his frying pan . |
| 15 | So I had to give me father a hand , you know , to keep the garden , and he had plenty to do . |
| 16 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
| 17 | Anyway , one day I had tickets to see Mike Oldfield and I was really upset because we had these gigs and so I had to sell them . |
| 18 | so I had to take him |
| 19 | So I had to take it from the telesales side to get the appointment to get in the door to do a demonstration and then to do the after sales . |
| 20 | It was hanging on so I had to take it off they are a bloody nuisance them racks you know , dangerous |
| 21 | yes tiny little place , and it was , it was n't totally satisfactory initially in that they erm , they left it with some sort of erm cock up , I could n't wind it up , there was something wrong with the crown click , or something of the sort , when I got it back , so I had to take it back again , but otherwise they seemed to be people who are well aware of watches in the best sense and eh , he said this is a an excellent movement and eh far better than the ones I normally see . |
| 22 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |
| 23 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 24 | So I had to pick them back up mm sorry . |
| 25 | So I had to pick it all up . |
| 26 | So I had to ask him to make sure , and he was very nice about it . |
| 27 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 28 | I had to have a bit because when I put the blackcurrant in there was n't enough so I had to mix it up with . |
| 29 | I was n't sure if it would work so I had to try it out before buying it . |
| 30 | if you get the doctor out , so I had to ring you , once you had said yes , what 's it , what 's the hell with her |