Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the end I had to do it did n't I ? |
| 2 | ‘ The general feeling of being on cloud nine once I had completed it has lasted , ’ he told ACCOUNTANCY , ‘ and has provided a very welcome psychological boost . ’ |
| 3 | Right away I had to leave it to answer the telephone . |
| 4 | because I had seen it painted twice |
| 5 | I had seen it happen at close quarters because I am his caddie . |
| 6 | " Some dogs do get over it , Wes. i did n't tell him that I had seen it happen only once . |
| 7 | The WS286 was a nice machine that served me until September last year when , sadly , I had to replace it to make more room on my desk . |
| 8 | Much later , searching my memory , I thought I had heard it say in deep and melancholy tones , ‘ Here , fellow outcast from society , if thou canst survive this night , draw strength from one who did not ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I got so depressed I had to have it cut short . |
| 10 | The thing is , we ordered it went back in the afternoon and it was cut and put on the side , I had to have it did n't I ? |
| 11 | I had to concede it had made compelling reading , from an historical point of view , but I did not anticipate referring to its pages again , not in present circumstances . |
| 12 | so I wanted to try and go for the C C Q , this is it , this is what we 're gon na ask you and of course it did n't work but I had to try it to see . |
| 13 | I had to retrieve it to write this and they are lining up already for its release . |
| 14 | She had seen it staggering around on uncertain legs a few mornings before . |
| 15 | Coming early downstairs long before the others , she had seen it lying on the floor inside the door . |
| 16 | She had seen it happen to others many a time . |
| 17 | Perhaps she had seen it happen while in this automatic state . |
| 18 | From where she stood it shimmered in silver under a glancing sun , though upstream at the inn , where she had seen it close to , it rolled darkly brown and turgid , and laden with the debris of bushes , for the spring thaw had come late and violently , bringing down an immense weight of snow-water from the mountains of Wales . |
| 19 | He had said she was beautiful and called her Felipe 's woman , but obviously the count was not about to enlighten her on that particular score , and as she was not revealing her knowledge of his language she had to let it go . |
| 20 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 21 | She had heard it spoken long ago . |
| 22 | She had made it happen . |
| 23 | She had wanted it preserved and she had chosen him as a means to this end . |
| 24 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 25 | ‘ The signatures on those cheques to her were hers and she had done it to finance her drinking habit . ’ |
| 26 | Now and again there was a light in his eyes , a far-off look , that was so appealing to her senses that she had to break it to ease her own pain . |
| 27 | ‘ Our mother says she does n't know where he puts it all , he 's so thin , ’ Carrie said , and as soon as she had spoken it struck her that she had never talked to them about her mother before . |
| 28 | She had to admit it looked that way . |
| 29 | She nibbled the toast he gave her unenthusiastically , but she had to admit it helped — her head was now using muffled drums . |
| 30 | For ten months she had watched it grow , had chosen the textures and colours of her own personality in which to clothe it . |