Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [pron] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 2 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 3 | I wish I had landed him a facer ! ’ |
| 4 | I had sent her a copy of my memoir , but her noncommittal letter of thanks had given no indication of whether she had read it . |
| 5 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 6 | I had done what a lot of people do when struck with shyness — tried to detach myself from a situation because I anticipated rejection . |
| 7 | She had nagged me to accept it , but now she behaved as though I had done her a disservice by doing so . |
| 8 | I had given them the idea that maybe they would become torturers . ’ |
| 9 | While Elizabeth was in Athens I had given her a proof copy . |
| 10 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 11 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 12 | I had met her a couple of times back in the world , but only at Dreamer functions . |
| 13 | I had bought her a watch for a present . |
| 14 | I had fancied myself a connoisseur of contrast , a gourmet savouring the sweet-and-sour clash between my present lifestyle and the one I had left behind me in East Oxford . |
| 15 | I had thought her a goner ; now this — from the victim 's own lips . |
| 16 | I had thought it a measure of their love and generosity that the nuns would make the suppliants laugh . |
| 17 | It would be most upsetting if Captain Auden were to hear I had shown you the implant I designed for him . ’ |
| 18 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 19 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 20 | ‘ And if I had told you the truth , Neil , that day when Jem Higgins knocked me senseless , what would you have done then ? |
| 21 | I had convinced myself the diet was necessary even though I found it tough going and particularly rough after a major operation and great weight loss . |
| 22 | ‘ The shop-owner rang me and said she would n't move until I had found her a house , ’ she explained . |
| 23 | I had found myself a champion ! |
| 24 | All I needed was a little bit of luck and as I pressed , dry mouthed , along the empty street it seemed I had found it The shock when I saw the two burly SPs strolling towards me was like a blow but was immediately followed by a strange calm . |
| 25 | Original by the look of it , and so were the banisters , but someone had painted them a kind of snot green . |
| 26 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 27 | Hugo Brassard looked as if someone had given him a present . |
| 28 | Elizabeth looked consciously unmoved , as though someone had paid her a compliment which , in modesty , she must affect not to have heard . |
| 29 | I 'll never forget the expression on his face , it was like someone had shown him a ghost . |
| 30 | If someone had told me a month before that my life was going to be changed so dramatically , I would not have believed them . |