Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [prep] the [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 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The second time I was pulled over I showed the ‘ producer ’ I had received from the first policeman , but to no avail . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | I had heard about the new economic empires of the East : Japan , Korea , Taiwan , Singapore , Malaysia … yet it was a surprise to realise how fast these giants are probing their tentacles deep into Sarawak 's ‘ Heart of Darkness ’ . |
| 17 | I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler 's private planes . |
| 18 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 19 | I had stared over the famous landscape : the three bridges , the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights . |
| 20 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 21 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
| 22 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 23 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 24 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 25 | Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately . |
| 26 | One thing that I had grasped about the whole business was that we were going to live in a country area where there would be lots of wildlife , and I had heard of King Arthur , of course . |
| 27 | By the time I had gone through the narrow tunnel to pit the first film had already started and I had to use the reflection of the action on the faces of the audience to find a seat without too much of ‘ Here , Here ’ and ‘ Sit down nuh ! ’ . |
| 28 | In fact , within two years I had gone to the other extreme , washing shorts for lads who were old enough to do it for themselves , and baking cakes for the sole purpose of giving them away . |
| 29 | I had read about the proposed rock 'n' roll evening in the newsletter and thought ‘ that would be a laugh , wonder if I could persuade to go ? ’ |
| 30 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |