Example sentences of "i had [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 2 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 3 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 4 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 5 | Well , for one thing , he did n't know about it and I had made a conscious decision that if I was ever to be ( he nearly says ’ become someone ’ ) . |
| 6 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 7 | I had made an interesting discovery . |
| 8 | Then I too realized I had made the right decision to stay put in hospital . |
| 9 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 10 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 11 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
| 12 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 13 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 14 | If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal . |
| 15 | ‘ In my time at Burmah Oil I had led a complete reconstruction of the Group . |
| 16 | I had to heave the old hag out of the house when I got married . |
| 17 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 18 | I felt I had joined an Out-in-the-Open University crash course in bird identification . |
| 19 | I had moved the rubber-handled wrench from the right side of the driver 's seat to the left but I knew its presence was mostly psychological . |
| 20 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 21 | I had imagined a battered tomb of Dame Alyse Compton , or a fine eighteenth-century tablet sacred to the memory of William Compton-Burnett and Hepzibah his wife , and lodge gates surmounted by heraldic monsters bearing the achievements of ( quarterly 1 and 4 ) Burnett , and Compton ( 2 and 3 ) . |
| 22 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 24 | I had fucked a common street nymph . ’ |
| 25 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 26 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 27 | The moment I had reached the Rhossili car park at the start of my walk , I realised that the mildness of this sunny spring day was being blown to bits out on Worm 's Head . |
| 28 | I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts . |
| 29 | I had reached an impenetrable blockade . |
| 30 | Unfortunately I had shut the stable door after the horse had fled . |