Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped that I had made that clear in an earlier answer . |
| 2 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 3 | At first I was a friendly , forthcoming little boy , very ready to talk , perhaps to boast about journeys I had made and things I had seen . |
| 4 | My way would be to lay planks and make do with these until I had confirmed that it was in fact a good swim . |
| 5 | ‘ I had observed that you were not a damned Englisher . |
| 6 | I had imagined that the coast would be largely cliff-bound , but in fact cliffs suitable for sea-birds are not common except around the far northern headlands . |
| 7 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 8 | Like all the other young men I had imagined that after a few brisk preliminaries I would be sitting in an aeroplane , learning to fly , but it turned out that this was so far in the future that it was hardly mentioned . |
| 9 | I had imagined that if the Secretary of State was interested in doing his job properly he would have said to us , ’ Mr. Stoner 's opinion will be made available to the first meeting of the Select Committee . ’ |
| 10 | Fifteen minutes later , having banged and bumped our way up another track heading directly for the low hills , the two of us came to the small tin-roofed hut which I had imagined and there , standing before it , was the single link required to bring Balboa 's journey and mine into their final conjunction . |
| 11 | It was a lot stronger than I had imagined and so I did not treat it with the necessary respect . |
| 12 | He was obviously in a worse state than I had imagined because to Toby a bar invariably meant a sponsor 's tent where the booze flowed like water , and at no expense to the consumer . |
| 13 | He looked at the holes I had dug and grinned . |
| 14 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 15 | From Dennis 's drunken hints that memorable evening in Ramillies Drive I had gathered that the reason for this was Karen 's sterility , so I was somewhat surprised to find her going on the offensive . |
| 16 | I already had two vital tools of the caddie 's trade in my pocket : notes on the measurements and characteristics of each hole , which I had checked and rechecked on the practice days ; and a chart , issued ahead of each day 's play by the PGA which told me where the hole would be cut on each green . |
| 17 | In Lima the community I had visited and who had no water , electricity or sewerage six years ago have now made great improvements in their shanty town . |
| 18 | Within moments I had hooked and landed two of the most perfect brown trout that I have ever caught , each weighing about 1lb 8oz . |
| 19 | Over the years I had hooked and lost many , and finally decided that there were far better ways of spending my time than in pursuit of these fractious , unpredictable , unco-operative brutes . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was the wine I had drunk but I only gave a short yell before my hair was grabbed and my head jerked violently back . |
| 21 | It was n't that I was being purposely unfriendly , it was just that I had decided that my best chance of survival lay in my being as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 22 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 23 | Wendy and I had decided that we did not want to remain in Wolverton , if we could go to one of the more interesting towns nearby . |
| 24 | I had decided that all my stuff was irretrievably lost ; that I did not want to continue my projected journey but would strike out and do something different — go to Ecuador perhaps and if possible from there into Brazil . |
| 25 | I had decided that I should take control of the aeroplane and try to fly it to England . |
| 26 | I had decided that , much to my regret , it would not be possible to plan a DIY funeral for myself as it was not a job I would bequeath to friends , and my nearest close relations who might have co-operated were overseas . |
| 27 | You will pick up from these last remarks that I had decided that my basic marine aquarium should be devoted to fish only , a good choice in many ways for a basic system , especially for those inexperienced in marine aquaria keeping . |
| 28 | ‘ At 42 , with seven children , I had decided that the Goodrich Company would probably be my ‘ home ’ for the rest of my working life . |
| 29 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 30 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |