Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er
2 I realized I had made a mistake .
3 I realised I 'd made a mistake as soon as he tightened his arms around my neck .
4 ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through .
5 I tried declaring my own sense of dissatisfaction to a few friends and found I 'd caught a tiger by the tail .
6 His small round face crinkled up like a naughty baby and , through his irritation , Georg found himself having to stifle a grin of his own .
7 She 'd missed a chance to go skating with Auntie Joan and when she came downstairs , she found she 'd missed a visit from Grandpa as well .
8 But I think that , you know , we 've got so involved we 've done a lot of work in our time , but now we do n't seem to be erm There is a younger element coming in they tell me .
9 Tossing her sunglasses and some local currency into a tote bag , she found herself having to make a dash up to the top deck , arriving to find Niall leaning against the rail .
10 The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris .
11 The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station .
12 CW reported he had passed a list of requirements to meet EC Directive on Workstation H & S to IL , but he had not yet had time to discuss eye and eyesight testing requirements with M Prior .
13 Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe .
14 ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim .
15 He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it .
16 I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’
17 As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life .
18 And she liked the idea of going to work you see , she 'd she 'd got a family , she 'd be about oh she was about ten years older than I was and erm she looked out of place you know .
19 Now it seemed she had found a man she could love , but he was someone else 's husband and her brother was bent on vengeance .
20 Zambia noticed she 'd grown a tuft of the real stuff back which fell into her eyes .
21 In the Masai the British believed they had found an audience capable of appreciating their own greatness of soul .
22 I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake .
23 Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date .
24 A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective .
25 During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog .
26 I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’
27 But he walked very purposefully erm straight up there and then I noticed he 'd got a hook
28 Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation .
29 I assumed he 'd made a mistake , but suppose he had n't ?
30 All the same , she realised she had to earn a living to support herself and Matt , and hit upon the idea of setting herself up as a hairdresser .
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