Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] had [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | The police soon traced the couple 's movements and found they had made a number of telephone calls to Paris . |
| 5 | The men who stopped her had done a lot of talking on their radio before taking her to their police station . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke said he assumed it had done a U-turn across the central reservation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A post mortem examination revealed she had suffered a heart attack at the time of the accident . |
| 17 | Before it happened I had reached a point where at last I was earning enough money to make things a little bit easier , and then suddenly I found myself having to start all over again with wrecked finances , a new relationship and living in digs . |
| 18 | At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further . |
| 19 | Property Management , of Darlington , claimed it had served a notice to quit on Finnegan last September . |
| 20 | In a telephone interview with the government-run radio station , Mr Chen Jun claimed he had become a victim of political games between the Chinese and Hong Kong Governments . |
| 21 | She was horrified until she guessed he had lit a cigarette . |
| 22 | From this , the idea was derived of ‘ patchwork pieces ’ , which then led to a demand for specific colours in the bags , ’ ‘ and suddenly we realized we had created a bit of a monster . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We realised we had to have a price rise but not as great as the council have proposed , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In the pause that followed I had to stifle a feeling of panic . |
| 25 | When he returned she had cleared a space in the kitchen , had coffee ready . |
| 26 | In a statement , the Department said Mrs McGonagle indicated she had obtained a copy of the specimen paper and made a number of photo-copies . |
| 27 | By the 1970s the business had dwindled to near extinction , before being rescued by a clever and resourceful lady called Sheila Pickles , who bought what remained of the enterprise and discovered she had acquired a wealth of recipes and formulas . |
| 28 | Once again , however , he discovered he had struck a chord with ordinary people , people who had felt they were unfit to pass judgement on modern buildings because they lacked the qualifications . |
| 29 | Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race . |
| 30 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |