Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 2 | One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself . |
| 3 | I had come home a day early . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Apart from the single ecstasy dose , she believed she had drunk only a glass of wine that night . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Having spent hours daydreaming about Portugal and Dom João , she had given scarcely a thought to the alternative . |
| 10 | She knew that , without meaning to , she had given away a lot of her life and thought , and wished she had not . |
| 11 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She had assumed rather a lot , it seemed — or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her ? |
| 14 | Sometimes , as Harriet went about her days , inwardly sorrowing but outwardly self-controlled , she felt as if she had lost both a husband and a daughter . |
| 15 | She had lost nearly a stone in weight and her face looked somewhat drawn , but she laughed a lot , especially when Willi was around . |
| 16 | She had taken only a couple of steps when in her haste she missed her footing . |
| 17 | You see we had heard quite a bit about him — the locals boggle at the way in which he does n't dodge his taxes . |
| 18 | Er we had lost quite a bit during the war . |
| 19 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 20 | And we had expected rather a slump after Christmas that has n't happened really so that er you know we 're just so busy I mean one thing to the next really . |
| 21 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 22 | They had played quite a bit at Hurlingham when they had first been married . |
| 23 | Yesterday the administrators of Maxwell 's private estate , estimated to be worth £8 million , revealed they had recovered only a quarter of that amount . |
| 24 | I also sent a 6-page questionnaire to people who attended Unification ‘ workshops ’ — the majority of whom did not join the movement , although they had learned quite a lot about it . |
| 25 | It had become purely a temple art . |
| 26 | It had taken only a moment of time ; and in a certain sense everything else that had ever happened to me was insignificant in comparison . |
| 27 | He had grown quite a bit , both upwards and outwards and , as I shook hands with him , I reflected that it would not be long before he won a professional tournament . |
| 28 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 29 | The back-channel reports on DEA operations that he had transmitted twice a week from his arrival in Cyprus were on file in a classified computer data bank , codenamed EMERALD , at Bolling Airforce Base , near Washington , and the first order of business upon his return was a systematic debriefing at a hotel near Fort Meade to fill in the gaps . |
| 30 | Before their marriage he had made quite a hobby of photography . |