Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] a [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 | If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal . |
| 8 | ‘ In my time at Burmah Oil I had led a complete reconstruction of the Group . |
| 9 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | I had fucked a common street nymph . ’ |
| 13 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 14 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 15 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
| 16 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 17 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
| 18 | But things started to change when a friend mentioned that since I had lost a little weight whilst being away on a beach holiday with my boyfriend ( not deliberately , just through not eating much in the heat of Spain ) several people had said how I looked better . |
| 19 | ‘ Terry and I had written a six-part series The Complete and Utter History of Britain for LWT . |
| 20 | I had found myself reacting more and more against the linguistic/logical positivist approach ; and , shortly after its appearance in 1936 , I had written a sustained diatribe against A. J. Ayer 's Language , Truth and Logic ( 1936 ) . |
| 21 | I had written a learned book , Architrave and Archetype , a thesis linking human aspiration with human-designed structures , cathedrals in particular . |
| 22 | While Stok was talking I had seen a familiar figure enter the door . |
| 23 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 24 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 25 | Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one . |
| 26 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 27 | I am still not clear whether my confidence was the product of my faith or whether I had generated a blind optimism to prevent the facts from crushing me . |
| 28 | If I had followed a different route through Bradford or Brixton the complexion of this story would have transformed some of its objectives : whiteness and blackness would have encountered each other dramatically . |
| 29 | I remember that he liked one in celebration of wool ; another was of everything brown or gray , for which I had arranged a large collection of natural objects , of woven and blockprinted textiles , pots , and beautiful bowls and boxes made of wood . |
| 30 | A feeling that I had run a terrible risk and now everything was going to be all right . |