Example sentences of "i have [vb pp] [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ? |
| 3 | I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’ |
| 4 | But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing . |
| 5 | We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up . |
| 6 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 7 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
| 8 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 9 | Tell me I had done the right thing . |
| 10 | I knew I had done the right thing , and now there would be no second monster to follow the first . |
| 11 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
| 12 | I had forgotten the other thing that Neil had told me . |
| 13 | That was on the Friday evening and by Monday I had put the whole thing out of my head and into the category of satisfying memories when the boy came in with Duke on the lead . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've said the wrong thing . |
| 15 | I 've lost the damn thing now ! |
| 16 | ‘ I 've done a daft thing , ’ said Bella , her thin lips trembling . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've done a daft thing , ’ she said again . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've done a terrible thing , John , ’ Estabrook said . |
| 19 | I 've done a terrible thing and I 'm being chased right now Vic well more or less like you know . |
| 20 | But I 've done a generalised thing that could be adapted . |
| 21 | And he went on just across the road to Road Co-op and he bought a small loaf of bread which at that time would be about tuppence , and gave the old lady this small loaf about ten days afterwards he called again , he said , he said I 've come to see you again , now are you alright and so on , he said I 've done a foolish thing this morning , he said I 'm responsible for the flowers , altar flowers , he said and I 've left my wallet at my lodgings , and my landlady has gone down to for the day . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's one thing being peaceful — it 's another thing altogether not knowing if I 've done the right thing . |
| 23 | I 'm not sure if I 've done the right thing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sick but I still think I 've done the right thing . |
| 25 | She thought : Oh God , I 've done the wrong thing . |
| 26 | All that 's fine with me ; I 've known the bloody thing was wrong for ages anyway . |
| 27 | The Crosskeys that 's why I put Martin , perhaps I 've put the wrong thing on you see . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've got the real thing . ’ |
| 29 | Oh , but I have said the wrong thing , she thought , for her sister 's face had tightened and her eyes burned with a coppery light . |
| 30 | Mr Maurice Saatchi who now gets three hundred and ten thousand pounds a year compared with six hundred thousand pounds a year two years ago replied I 'm quite satisfied that involuntary taking a fifty per cent pay cut I have done the right thing . |