Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 2 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |
| 3 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 4 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 5 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 7 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 8 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 9 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 10 | Oh I did n't like them I was , I could see them riding up the leg just like that pair I had on that day and in the end they look so grey and they look like |
| 11 | I had at that time , and I 'm trying to recall probably two or three people working directly for me , yes |
| 12 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 13 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 14 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 15 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ What would I give now to have a joint of beef like I had in those days ! ’ |
| 17 | Except that I had in some way to justify myself . |
| 18 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 19 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 20 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 21 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 22 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 23 | She had on several occasions fobbed off my clumsy advances with great ease and much friendliness . |
| 24 | Feeling closer to him than she had at any time since her mother 's death , Rory hid her face against his shoulder . |
| 25 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 26 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 27 | For she had in some fashion , through her perceptive and precognitive powers — which in many ways she shared with Shelley — received Frankenstein 's story from the thin air , as far as I could determine . |
| 28 | She had simply , and thoughtlessly , intended to kill what she had in any case thought of as an insincere proposal . |
| 29 | Oh Aye you had to Some people would have went mad with getting them |
| 30 | that was the trouble you had with that table top , do you remember doing that polishing ? |