Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made two , maybe three sweeps of the pole , when I felt a wet slippiness beneath me . |
| 2 | Above all , showing Leeds and Dad , especially Dad , that I had made good . |
| 3 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I had made that clear , ’ said Wheeler with no attempt at all to disguise his contempt for the Archdeacon . |
| 5 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 6 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 7 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 8 | Back at the firm , did my colleagues ask if I had made any good deals , ordered too much or made new contacts ? |
| 9 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 10 | There was one field in particular that I had made some good finds on and I had searched this piece of land time and time again . |
| 11 | As I had made some pretty critical remarks about the Soviet Union , at a time the war-time alliance still commanded admiration , especially among the young , he pointed out that if printed , these views would be taken by the Kremlin to be officially inspired . |
| 12 | Maybe I had made some inadvertent noise . |
| 13 | In the year which ended with my twenty-first birthday , I had made twenty-nine parachute jumps , been arrested , spent a month on bail , been in hospital twice , stabbed in the face once , and spent over two thirds of my days with the Territorials . |
| 14 | The weather became very bitter up here and because it had been a bad summer I had kept two of my cattle in the byre by the house all the time . |
| 15 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 16 | In the good old days , the days I now call BC , Before Cancer , I had kept these Mafia , these hyenas at bay . |
| 17 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 18 | At the convent a year ago I think I probably said many things which I wish now I had kept silent . |
| 19 | A few days ago I had gotten ill and my legs still feel like thin stilts . |
| 20 | In fact , things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl , Jane Wilde . |
| 21 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 22 | I had imagined long pitches of vertical ice and continuous difficulty , so I was n't entirely sure how we were going to climb it . |
| 23 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 24 | I had imagined go-it-alone people to be temperamentally independent-minded and even rebellious — and perhaps to feel a kind of robust roguishness at cheating the taxman on principle . |
| 25 | Benjamin , however , squeezed me by the wrist and I followed him , taking some consolation in the fact that I had hidden two knives , three spoons and a small silver plate used for sweetmeats inside my jerkin . |
| 26 | We were thus officially a dry boat , though I had hidden some Irish whiskey in the engine room , and I was sure that Ellen would have similarly salted away some vodka . |
| 27 | I had broken one of my own golden rules . |
| 28 | I put it back , convinced that I had broken some serious law , hoping no one had noticed . |
| 29 | But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , after about six months I had saved several thousand dollars and decided to spend a few weeks drifting across the country to the West Coast . |