Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 2 | As a parting gift the Keraing had given me a scale model of the prahu we were sailing in , which I had lashed to the hull walls facing backwards . |
| 3 | The first part of the walk kicks off up a private road gliding beneath a fabulous railway viaduct , the very one from which I had gazed in my bike-less train down the length of Loch Shiel for the first time some ten years earlier . |
| 4 | Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror , unaccountable yet unendurable , I threw on my clothes with haste ( for I felt that I should sleep no more during the night ) , and endeavoured to arouse myself from the pitiable condition into which I had fallen , by pacing rapidly to and fro through the apartment . |
| 5 | The Tyre from which I had travelled was a place of unpaved roads and overflowing sewage , of Palestinian camps and fedayeen guerrillas , of guns and sunken ships and the sharp clap of explosions . |
| 6 | And it was there ; the slight but regular twitching of the temporal muscles which I had dreaded . |
| 7 | In contrast to some other material , my essay ‘ The Claims of Basic English ’ , to which I had referred in my letter of 18 July 1944 , had reached him ; and I was much cheered by the fact that he expressed unqualified approval for it . |
| 8 | The next step was selection for the World Cup squad : ‘ Actually , I was lying in bed with ‘ flu on the Sunday morning of a squad session from which I had called off when Bill Hogg , the SRU secretary , telephoned to say that Iain Milne had been forced to withdraw . |
| 9 | I remember that he liked one in celebration of wool ; another was of everything brown or gray , for which I had arranged a large collection of natural objects , of woven and blockprinted textiles , pots , and beautiful bowls and boxes made of wood . |
| 10 | These I do not repeat here , but my version of Boulestin 's sweet tomato conserve , which I had intended to include in the same book and which is indeed indexed as appearing in it , somehow got away . |
| 11 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 12 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 13 | Water , which I had loved , had become an agent of corruption . |
| 14 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
| 15 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 16 | My rebellion came on a solid base of love , admiration and imitation which I had done when I was very young . ’ |
| 17 | I used heavy orange nylon fishing-line for the string , wound round a specially made drum for the winch , which I had strengthed and fitted with a chest-brace . |
| 18 | This favourite phrase of hers , meaning uninformed opinion , seemed to underline her contempt for the situation in which I had placed myself : the young , married woman , abdicating intellectual effort , doing nothing but washing and cleaning and caring for her baby . |
| 19 | One moment which I recall vividly illuminates the problematic position in which I had placed myself . |
| 20 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 21 | In more than two years of living with one band of Semai , my wife and I witnessed only two instances of large-scale co-operative action , one of which I had to organize myself to mobilize a labour force to repair a dangerously deteriorated suspension bridge which nearly everyone in the band used every day , and which was literally on the verge of collapse . |
| 22 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 23 | The daughter , apparently the bride-to-be , pointed to an invitation which I had guessed would be chosen . |
| 24 | Everything about this little scene related to the Ocean with which I had become so enraptured : if ever the peoples of the Pacific were to take over the running of the world , I fancied , it would start with people such as these , using such things in a place like this . |
| 25 | ‘ As a senior director , I 'm used to having complete creative authority while making a film and I found that I could n't carry out my job in the manner to which I had become accustomed . |
| 26 | But the weekly half-hour I liked best was devoted to the old music hall songs of the ‘ gay nineties ’ , many of which I had heard my father sing . |
| 27 | There was one aspect of his life which had made him so — of which I had heard talk long before on some obscure wanderers ' grapevine . |
| 28 | The ideas which I had conceived of that noble university were realised when I saw it … |
| 29 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 30 | No matter how disturbingly accurate my visual memory may be , all-seeing is nowise all-hearing but suffice to say they were further indicators that the bridge over which I had crossed the abyss had been mined behind me . |