Example sentences of "i have [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd said the right thing and she 'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques .
2 I originally decided to meet you because I 'd heard the civil police were n't letting ‘ sleeping spies lie ’ .
3 I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother .
4 Oh well you had to notif take doctor 's note in you see , oh yes er doctor 's note and erm we were allowed , but erm fortunately I did n't have to have much time off , I 've been really fortunate that way , but erm I do n't think I would do anything that 's different to what I have done because it 's hard to prepare me for how I am now that 's how I look at things , and er the trouble I had with my husband it 's helped me to prepare myself for doing the garden , I 'd done the front garden when the gardeners came this morning .
5 ‘ I 'll do anything , ’ I told them , and it was n't till afterwards that I realized I 'd done the right thing 'cos where else was I to go ?
6 I did n't get too much sleep that night though , wondering if I 'd done the right thing ! ’
7 But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing .
8 I 'd believed the English boy would protect me from these sounds .
9 There was general approval that I 'd asked the right question — no one back in the newsroom realised how hard it had been .
10 Nicola is such a brilliant student I 'd asked the Royal Ballet to give her an audition . ’
11 But if so I felt that I had a chance of retrieving the situation , once I 'd made the Fraxillian delivery .
12 We all just sat there like Mickey Mouse was dead or something , and then we got on the train and went back home and did n't say anything to each other , and all the kids at school thought I 'd made the whole thing up .
13 She sent , they were in those little strips , she sent three in for me , she said and have you tasted these I said I do n't think so , so she sent them , I 'd tasted the other ones but not those white ones so she sent three of them in for us .
14 When I met her , I thought I 'd met the ideal woman .
15 Within six months , I 'd repaid the forty-pound loan from my mom-in-law .
16 It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know
17 But I 'd bought the wrong weedkiller , it was Tumbleweed and I found out later it 's only lethal to tropical fish , apparently I should have bought pathklear which is much stronger .
18 I 'd found the candle-making kit in the cupboard under the stairs five or six years ago , and experimented with the colours and consistencies for months before hitting on the idea of using the wax as a wasp-prison .
19 I 'd cleaned the spurious wounds and known humiliation , shame and hopelessness and for those very reasons , loved her the more .
20 Lisabeth was out of her flat before I 'd closed the front door behind me .
21 Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well .
22 Yeah I 'm sorry I 'm a little bit late but , you know , I just wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turnings cos erm
23 Erm I wanted to make sure I 'd got the right turning I think was the answer but there was no reason to say I had problems finding you or I was held up I 'm sorry for that or , or anything , there was no , there was no actual acknowledgement or reason for being late .
24 to wonder whether I 'd got the right time .
25 Eyes looking back and I 'd got the old bit moving all the time keeping , he said righto get out , you 're leading me , they were too pleased to get rid of them .
26 I thought I 'd got the initial start and I wanted to keep ahead all the time .
27 'and there was 1 , making my husband 's life a misery , sure I 'd got the dreaded C.
28 I explained that I 'd told the sleeping-car attendants that Zak wanted to use him in a scene .
29 On this occasion the N1 cam was to the right of centre and I 'd knitted the right side of the neck correctly , with no problem .
30 and er I 'd left the front door and the inner door open and
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