Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I had made up my mind . |
| 2 | In this particular Mess I had hardly sat down before I felt completely at home , and before I had finished the meal , I had made up my mind that if this particular unit would have me , this was where I would stay . |
| 3 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 4 | But I had made up my mind that I must not get emotional , so I hid all my feelings . |
| 5 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 6 | ‘ I had made up my mind to put this proposition to you today , ’ he said , ‘ but I see now that this was not the right moment to approach you , ma petite . |
| 7 | I had made so many enemies . |
| 8 | Naturally I never thought the daft sod would , and so there was nothing for it , I had to do likewise and follow him , a/2 la buff , into the showers . |
| 9 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 10 | All I had to do now was give them back . |
| 11 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 12 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 13 | ; I left by the X-o'clock train ; I did the business I had to do there ; and by X-o'clock I was back . ’ ' |
| 14 | Now the duties I had to do there was to take the place of what the Provost of the town did before you see . |
| 15 | I had to do weekly checks on a car . |
| 16 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 17 | I had kept fairly quiet while I tried to establish myself and gauge the atmosphere of the school . |
| 18 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 19 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 20 | so I had to lie down properly and crawl over the top of it . |
| 21 | and they had all these great pads you know and I had all these maternity pads because I needed them you know I had to pad up and I had to and I felt so embarrassed |
| 22 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 23 | By the time I was ten it seemed I had lived backstage to so many of those early film sets . |
| 24 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 25 | I had wanted to return to Scapa for some time , to refresh my memories of that extraordinary and beautiful place and of the strange life I had lived there for nearly three years . |
| 26 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 27 | The threat of unemployment , even for apparently ‘ qualified ’ people , was such that I had to cast round desperately for a job . |
| 28 | Dad had been right ; it was foggy and getting thicker so I had to slow down because I could n't see where I was going . |
| 29 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 30 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |