Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In some ways , ’ he said yesterday , ‘ Python does look very old-fashioned now , yet when I arranged a compilation of all 45 shows for the BBC I found that we had on the Not The Nine O ’ Clock News unintentionally pinched a number of things , putting the signature in the middle of the programme , parodying famous TV interviews . |
| 2 | Some years later , when her health and strength failed her , she found that she had to ; but when that day came , she packed her courage as well as her clothes into her suitcase . |
| 3 | Further south , government forces reported that they had on May 12 taken from Garang 's forces the town of Liria ( east of Juba and on the road to Torit ) and on May 28 Kapoeta ( some 50 km north of the border with Kenya ) . |
| 4 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 5 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 6 | She realised that he had to be the root of her insecurities , of her inability to believe that anyone could ever love her in return . |
| 7 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 8 | Heterosexual feminists argued that we had to be taken seriously as women , and if the media got away with the label of lesbians , then ‘ the women out there ’ would be alienated . |
| 9 | The Bishop in his reply added that he had in fact consecrated a third pro-Cathedral ; after extensive repairs , St George 's in York had been re-consecrated by him . |
| 10 | I stipulated that it had to be different from mine . |
| 11 | She recalled that she had at the time been a little put out by the prince 's interest in Joan — but now the important thing was to persuade Joan to join in the festivities and bring her a first-hand report . |
| 12 | The Headmaster expressed his concurrence with the suggestion as the Technical School could supply subjects of instruction not dealt with at a Grammar School , and stated that he had under consideration a scheme as to classes and fees having this object in view . " |
| 13 | On March 26 the US State Department confirmed that it had in July 1991 denied a visa to Narong because of suspicions over his role in heroin trading . |
| 14 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 15 | I reckoned that I had at least one brigade of white cells on the start line with other brigades available as required . |
| 16 | On one occasion , when time had been scheduled in a departmental meeting for discussion of my questions , ten out of twelve members of staff present indicated that they had at one time or another received complaints from girls ( usually in the third or fourth year ) about the male bias of their overall literary ‘ diet ’ . |
| 17 | Over the next couple of days she discovered that she had to be careful not to think about Luke Scott . |
| 18 | Paige pushed the thought away ; until the day dawned that she had to she refused to contemplate it . |
| 19 | This woman would be the one in the attic , the one nobody paid for , the one they fed because they had to and treated like filth because she did n't seem to notice or care . |
| 20 | Taylor and his managers decided that it had to be ‘ double or quits ’ if the business was to be a success . |
| 21 | This began with some flattering words about us both , and implied that he had for long been unable to make up his mind about the abdication . |
| 22 | Now he confessed that he had in fact installed her . |
| 23 | He tried to stand but collapsed and he had to be dragged to the Headmaster . |
| 24 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 25 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 26 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 27 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 28 | Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million . |
| 29 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 30 | She looked it over , saw that it had at least two exits , and gave him a cautious yes . |