Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African war had just broken out and I had received my embarkation orders . |
| 2 | You had to force your way through the flow of MPs to get to the No lobby and I had to force my way through to get to the No lobby . |
| 3 | Cedric had n't changed a bit and I had to battle my way to the broken armchair by the fireside . |
| 4 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 5 | It was on a Friday night and I had packed my suitcases and taken them around to Rachel 's house so her dad could stack them on top of the car . |
| 6 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 7 | And I had to lift your hand for you |
| 8 | And then , suddenly , she was struggling and screaming and I had to hold her wrists to stop her from scratching me . ’ |
| 9 | Benjamin knelt down , bringing the torch closer , and I had to put my hand to my mouth to prevent myself retching . |
| 10 | At the end of 1985 he qualified as a solicitor ( ‘ this was the safety net and I had written my thesis on the copyright laws , which has been very useful to me ’ ) , but he had already decided to take the plunge as a full time professional musician . |
| 11 | And it was rough going , and I had to watch my head and I had to watch where I was putting my feet . |
| 12 | ‘ But I felt that the fine was harsh and I had to defend my integrity which has now been upheld . ’ |
| 13 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 14 | Donald ( an airborne orderly in the RAMC ) had died of wounds in Normandy a year before , and I had to dismantle our flat in Oxford . |
| 15 | He seemed a really pleasant , friendly man , and I had admired his running before . |
| 16 | After my wife and I had shared our experiences , it was a crazy time in our lives . |
| 17 | Two French UNRWA workers were released from captivity in Beirut at the beginning of the year and I had watched their press conference imagining how I would feel if it were John delivering the speech . |
| 18 | So that had to go back and I had to find my Visa card much to the annoyance of people queuing behind me . |
| 19 | ‘ I once had ideas of sailing around the world , doing a Sir Francis Chichester , you know , but work got in the way , and I had to lower my sights . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The following afternoon I was to be found in Green Park near Buckingham Palace with two ‘ smart ’ ladies in tow , the Hon Mrs This and That , and I had to photograph their hats . |
| 21 | And I had to pay my rooms out of that . |
| 22 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 23 | I had to go to sign on ; and I had to show my birth certificate . |
| 24 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 25 | ‘ I think you are sincere , ’ Kezia said next , and I had to stuff my handkerchief in my mouth . |
| 26 | It was irrelevant to them , and I had to make my way with them from point one . |
| 27 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 28 | He had hit it once and I had taken my hand out from under my chin preparatory to ducking when Paul , the bomb and its little halo-pool and everything else for about ten metres around suddenly vanished inside a climbing column of sand and steam and flying rock , lit just the once from inside , in that blindingly brief first moment , by the high explosive detonating . |
| 29 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 30 | Cos we had to go you see , and you had to put your Sunday clothes on , your best coat and everything ; and then when you came back you had to take them all off again . ’ |