Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I know that when I had made love to you that afternoon I was right to follow my instincts . ’ |
| 2 | I had made proposals on National Insurance but that , said Nigel , was a Budget matter . |
| 3 | I had made notations by the Cicero Club stories . |
| 4 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 5 | I had made loops to go over her wrists , I told her , so that she would n't lose her grip . |
| 6 | By Christmas 1942 I had settled down pretty well at B.P. I had made friends and was enjoying the camaraderie that was peculiar to wartime organisations . |
| 7 | There was only one occasion when , either preoccupied or through sheer inattentiveness , I found him rising before I had made preparations to follow . |
| 8 | I had made Lucy take off her anorak so she looked a bit less like an urban guerrilla , even though the T-shirt she was wearing underneath — ‘ Rats Have Rights ’ — was a bit of a giveaway , or maybe I was just paranoid . |
| 9 | I was glad I had made arrangements with a City Temple friend to go back to the flat in Southwark to collect the last of my wanted books etc . |
| 10 | Vancouver boasted the largest Chinese community in the country , and I had made scores of Chinese-Canadian friends . |
| 11 | I had joined Thames Valley back in the early eighties from London Irish . |
| 12 | In my mind , I had pictured Charles , Anne and myself standing in the middle of an otherwise empty common room , sherry glass in hand , desperately trying to think of something to say to each other . |
| 13 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 14 | Without needing to be told , I knew I had reached Frankenstein 's secret laboratory ! |
| 15 | I had reached Adrar , so I was able to accept help from the lads . |
| 16 | I had visited Paris once or twice , but now I was fortunate enough to secure a grant from the LCC — £15 , but princely for those days — which permitted me to spend a week or two there for the purpose of study , my subject being modern French philosophy . |
| 17 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 18 | For me , this was a second shufti , for I had visited Jordan almost forty years before . |
| 19 | It came as a shock as I had visited Jack two weeks earlier , having travelled down to Shergold Guitars in Romford to collect my Burns Marvin after Jack had refurbished it for me . |
| 20 | I could n't bring myself to believe it , and after I had visited Cooper in Maidstone Prison and McMahon in Long Lartin Prison and spoken to their two solicitors , Gareth Peirce for Cooper and Wendy Mantle for McMahon , as well as to Tom Sargant , the secretary of JUSTICE , who had also taken up the case , I was convinced that they were as innocent of the Luton murder as I was . |
| 21 | All my adult life I had adored foods which were high in fat . |
| 22 | I had eschewed politics in favour of a life practising law and enjoying the amenities of a civilised society in the way of drama , music and literature and , in a more limited and selective fashion , the visual arts . |
| 23 | The first leg of the first occasion I had flown horses from Heathrow was made bearable by a bottle of whisky and a regular itinerant groom . |
| 24 | Now , having been the rebel from the NHS , I had turned maverick and become the rebel of Bristol . |
| 25 | I felt — I could not be more certain than that — that when I had treated polio cases on previous occasions I had actually sensed wasting muscles making slight quivers , contracting with the pain of a spasm ; and it was these contractions of muscles which , following normal treatment , so often caused shortening of the leg when the muscles withered . |
| 26 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 27 | One advantage of the appalling route was that it offered no temptation to diverge from it — since I could not see where I was going anyway , the only thing to do was to follow the compass , and I had waded ditches as I came to them instead of attempting to find easier crossing places . |
| 28 | ‘ For several years I had suffered tiredness and bouts of depression which had been put down to overwork , disturbed nights with the children and stress , ’ days Lyn Perry , 40 , of Rickmansworth , who 's married and has three daughters , aged between 10 and 15 . |
| 29 | I now have 4 years ' teaching experience although I too was thrown in at the deep end — my only advantage over others was that I had studied languages myself and knew how difficult it could be . |
| 30 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |