Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] 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 | I had made an interesting discovery . |
| 8 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
| 9 | If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal . |
| 10 | ‘ In my time at Burmah Oil I had led a complete reconstruction of the Group . |
| 11 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 12 | I felt I had joined an Out-in-the-Open University crash course in bird identification . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 16 | I had fucked a common street nymph . ’ |
| 17 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 18 | I had reached an impenetrable blockade . |
| 19 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 20 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
| 21 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 22 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 23 | As soon as the morning lessons were over and I had snatched a quick lunch I headed towards the village with my bag . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The ‘ ghost ’ was now exorcised , without fuss or argument , and I had lost a good source of revenue . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Terry and I had written a six-part series The Complete and Utter History of Britain for LWT . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | I had written a learned book , Architrave and Archetype , a thesis linking human aspiration with human-designed structures , cathedrals in particular . |
| 30 | While Stok was talking I had seen a familiar figure enter the door . |