Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] had [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting them to take me on had taken some persuasion : developing countries do not generally put in requests for people in my profession — clinical psychology . |
| 2 | So consequently at times there would be er periods of stress for myself , where I just had to get enough money to give my daughter some new clothes like you know . |
| 3 | But you just had to do that sort of thing , I , we used to feel awfully sorry for the patients but you had , they had do it because they would n't have got a wash otherwise , there was so mu so much to do . |
| 4 | ‘ But if you really had discovered this way of changing people , why did you stop ? ’ |
| 5 | Er , you then had got another ticket , and er train ticket , and you went to the south of France by train , and er you got a bed and a couple of meals there er then you had a bus ride . |
| 6 | We just had to stop half way . |
| 7 | We recently had to face this problem in my own county when we embarked on a capital programme to computerise the library service . |
| 8 | He stuck with his ideas , and for a year did all kinds of manual work as a casual labourer till he eventually had amassed enough money to start a grocery business with a friend . |
| 9 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 10 | StorageTek says that it too had put some money up for the development and would have marketed the product even without buying the company — although the Viking was seen as a direct competitor to its own Iceberg , Viking is in fact a simpler device with fewer features . |
| 11 | And no-one else had raised any objection . |
| 12 | Some of that initial group of students and myself already had known each other for several years and knew each other 's families . |