Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 2 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 3 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 4 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 5 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
| 6 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 7 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 8 | One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself . |
| 9 | I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own . |
| 10 | I had come home a day early . |
| 11 | Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' . |
| 12 | I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ? |
| 13 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
| 14 | So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact . |
| 15 | I had wondered how a man in his right mind could want to be with me and decided that no girl in her right mind would want to be with him . |
| 16 | If someone had got up a petition for that bloke who refused to pay his ticket because the heating did n't work , I would have signed it . |
| 17 | The UGT , the CCOO and the Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations ( Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales — CEOE ) agreed at a meeting with Solchaga on Dec. 27 to recommence talks on a social pact which had foundered almost a year previously [ see pp. 36406 ; 36777 ] . |
| 18 | Fürst Franz Thun-Hohenstein remembers : ‘ When the enormous picture arrived packed up , my sisters and I were curious to see and touch something which really came from Decin , from Bohemia , which had taken on a kind of dream-like quality for us ; Decin did live on for us , but was unattainable . |
| 19 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 20 | Apart from the single ecstasy dose , she believed she had drunk only a glass of wine that night . |
| 21 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |
| 22 | God , but she had grown up a lot since then . |
| 23 | Even 4 September seemed an age ago now , part of a deluded past when she had believed her abduction was a simple crime committed for gain , when she had thought her release was imminent , her restoration to the pampered life she had led merely a matter of time and money . |
| 24 | She had built up a reputation as ‘ the Iron Lady ’ with some stern condemnations of Soviet Communism and its imperialist designs , before she became Prime Minister . |
| 25 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |
| 26 | Having spent hours daydreaming about Portugal and Dom João , she had given scarcely a thought to the alternative . |
| 27 | She had given not a thought to that . |
| 28 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 29 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 30 | Ellie tried to imagine how her mother must have felt as she had left Ireland by boat , to sail the Atlantic and marry a man she had met only a handful of times . |