Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters . |
| 2 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 3 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 4 | For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go . |
| 5 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 6 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 7 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that in Mr White Face I had stumbled upon an evolutionary path paralleling — rivalling — our accepted one ; that this path sprang from a small ground mammal ( possibly tusked ) very different from the arboreal tarsier-like creature from which Homo sapiens has developed . |
| 9 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 10 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 11 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 12 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 13 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 14 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 15 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 16 | I stayed for a while about twenty paces away from the platform barrier , numbed by the realization that I had fallen at the first hurdle . |
| 17 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 18 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 19 | Luckily I had run off a faint quality copy ( like this letter ) to economise on ink cartridge use as cartridges £14 or so each . |
| 20 | In 1984 I had run in a makeshift team against the projected Olympic foursome . |
| 21 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 22 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 23 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 24 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 25 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 26 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 27 | Movement from the centralities of ‘ real polising ’ in uniform , via the CID , into the marginal fringes of an extended period of drug squad work , had a profound influence on the absolute tenets of policing I had absorbed over the previous decade . |
| 28 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 29 | The alternative had been revealed to me ; with magnificent hardihood , I had ventured into the Other Side ; was I to suffer the fate of the two Dutch explorers ? |
| 30 | I had said to a promising-looking man behind a counter , but it seems I should have said ‘ Cup of tea ’ and left it at that , for he put his hands on his hips and shouted , ‘ What 's stopping you ? ’ |