Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 2 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 3 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 4 | It seemed to me that in Mr White Face I had stumbled upon an evolutionary path paralleling — rivalling — our accepted one ; that this path sprang from a small ground mammal ( possibly tusked ) very different from the arboreal tarsier-like creature from which Homo sapiens has developed . |
| 5 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 6 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 7 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 8 | Luckily I had run off a faint quality copy ( like this letter ) to economise on ink cartridge use as cartridges £14 or so each . |
| 9 | In 1984 I had run in a makeshift team against the projected Olympic foursome . |
| 10 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 11 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 12 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 13 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 14 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |
| 15 | Luckily , I had heard of a suitable den on the River Wye . |
| 16 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 17 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |
| 18 | But during the weekends I did my best to claim her attention , following her about from room to room as I had done as a small child , and chattering endlessly about life , literature and the events of the previous school-term . |
| 19 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |
| 20 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 21 | I later realized that I had posed during a crucial period , and the tiny bronzes that resulted ( for that size prevailed ) continue daily to touch me . |
| 22 | On one such occasion , I had walked past a tiny lochan . |
| 23 | We had done a lot of hard motoring through three countries and , although we had by no means seen all of the Scandinavian birds , we had achieved more than I had expected on a first trip . |
| 24 | I had brought off a successful forced landing , with no damage to man or machine , and afterwards I was able to describe the symptoms which led to the failure , which in turn led to the fault being found and cured . |
| 25 | It was the first time in my life I had acted like a complete sod to other people , and I felt that my behaviour was worse because I had loads of advantages the lesser recruits did n't : I could speak French ; I was basically healthier and therefore found fitness much easier ; I was a north European Caucasian which endeared me to some of the more racist instructors . |
| 26 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 27 | Five hours later , after I had passed beneath a crudely-lettered blue notice board that welcomed travellers to the unpeopled jungle vastness of Darién , I came to a wooden sign that said simply ‘ Sante Fé ’ . |
| 28 | Earlier , I had spoken to a Uruguayan woman and her boyfriend . |
| 29 | ‘ I had worked as an Assistant Secretary ( senior manager ) full time for three years in a very heavy job and I was beginning to feel I was permanently breathless . |
| 30 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |