Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then I too realized I had made the right decision to stay put in hospital . |
2 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
6 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Unfortunately I had shut the stable door after the horse had fled . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
13 | If so I had fulfilled the whole gospel of Darwinism ’ . |
14 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
15 | Falconry is not a sport confined to women , but on this occasion I felt I had seen the perfect emblem for the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ . |
16 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
17 | When I arrived in the airport I had seen the local paper which reported the sighting of one near Isafjördur . |
18 | I headed out of town and found the path through the woods where earlier I had seen the white hound running . |
19 | I had survived the second lap but an ordinary rest would be inadequate now . |
20 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
21 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
22 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
23 | ( I had dreaded the other meetings with her too , had n't I. Yes I had . ) |
24 | And I had locked the back door . |
25 | I had intended the whole play to be accompanied by light drum taps to accentuate the beats ( esp . |
26 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |
27 | I had achieved the remarkable feat of uniting the two factions at the party in mockery of me . |
28 | For long before my camera had been stolen I had noticed the unhealthy reliance people had on photographs , and their ability to take them , to make sense of what they saw . |
29 | This was not the first time I had noticed the old enmity of the Norwegians for the Germans . |
30 | When I had eaten the first course of cabbage , and the second of meat pudding , potato and carrots , I poured cold water into my used billycan and put it on the lighted stove . |