Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 2 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 3 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 4 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 5 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 6 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 7 | I had made an interesting discovery . |
| 8 | Then I too realized I had made the right decision to stay put in hospital . |
| 9 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 10 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 11 | If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal . |
| 12 | ‘ In my time at Burmah Oil I had led a complete reconstruction of the Group . |
| 13 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 14 | I felt I had joined an Out-in-the-Open University crash course in bird identification . |
| 15 | I had moved the rubber-handled wrench from the right side of the driver 's seat to the left but I knew its presence was mostly psychological . |
| 16 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 17 | I had imagined a battered tomb of Dame Alyse Compton , or a fine eighteenth-century tablet sacred to the memory of William Compton-Burnett and Hepzibah his wife , and lodge gates surmounted by heraldic monsters bearing the achievements of ( quarterly 1 and 4 ) Burnett , and Compton ( 2 and 3 ) . |
| 18 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 19 | I had fucked a common street nymph . ’ |
| 20 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 21 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 22 | The moment I had reached the Rhossili car park at the start of my walk , I realised that the mildness of this sunny spring day was being blown to bits out on Worm 's Head . |
| 23 | I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts . |
| 24 | I had reached an impenetrable blockade . |
| 25 | Unfortunately I had shut the stable door after the horse had fled . |
| 26 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 27 | When I had completed a two hour programme my friends came to my home and we saw it together . |
| 28 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 29 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 30 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |