Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 2 | I thought within myself , ‘ With what eyes these poets see nature ! ’ and ever after , when I saw the sun-set stream upon the objects facing it , conceived I had made a discovery , or thanked Mr Wordsworth for having made one for me ! |
| 3 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 4 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 5 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
| 6 | Prior to writing the script , I had made a list of the cast , designated local actors for the various roles and had them called for the 2pm ‘ woodshed ’ run-through . |
| 7 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 8 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 9 | I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 13 | ‘ The full weight of the Children 's Department came down on us for that scene and , in retrospect , I realised I had made a mistake letting that go through . |
| 14 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 15 | I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake . |
| 16 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 18 | It is as if I had made a small betrayal . |
| 19 | If I had kept a sizeable pig unit , I would have grown barley for grinding into meal . |
| 20 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 21 | ‘ In my time at Burmah Oil I had led a complete reconstruction of the Group . |
| 22 | Feel as if I had lived a long time and done very little . |
| 23 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |
| 24 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 25 | I had moved a table into a big window , for I foresaw that we should need all the help we could get from the view . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After all , I had imagined a future in Kumla security prison . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | So I mean again I realized I had dug a hole for myself with the compressed funding but at the same time I was saying to myself oh yeah there is carry forward here er |
| 30 | I had fucked a common street nymph . ’ |