Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 2 | I realized I had n't told him anything about Cal except about the villa and Harry . |
| 3 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 4 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 5 | I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 6 | I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs . |
| 7 | I realized I had not told anybody where I was going . |
| 8 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 9 | I realized I had never known any other world apart from Lowood or Gateshead . |
| 10 | He realised I had finally caught him … |
| 11 | I realised I had not mentioned Elsie at all , and I was glad . |
| 12 | But then I realised I had n't played one bad shot and I thought ‘ what have I got to fear ’ ’ . |
| 13 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 14 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 15 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 16 | About4 weeks ago I realised I had only put this in the hallway after the title season , and promptly took it down . |
| 17 | At Frankfurt Airport I found I had just missed one plane to London and there was not another for three hours . |
| 18 | When I looked I found I had not only a gun but also a kitchen knife and a saw . |
| 19 | He completed his art degree at the Berkshire College of Art — ‘ but , at the end , I found I had n't got any answers to my questions ’ — and went as a postgraduate to Reading University to study with Professor Anthony Betts , ‘ the only man I 've ever met who could really teach ’ . |
| 20 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 21 | I found I had always to be looking at her feet . |
| 22 | Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music . |
| 23 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 24 | Her fingers began to move over the sheet of paper , but when she had finished drawing the circle of standing stones , she found she had also sketched in the figure of Julius . |
| 25 | Nothing , though , would induce her to sit in such close proximity , and she pretended she had n't seen it until the man in the white jacket swiftly replaced everything in front of her without a word . |
| 26 | Anne , 33 , was first on the scene at Burnaby Dun , Yorks , after worried neighbours reported they had not seen the woman for some time . |
| 27 | A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car . |
| 28 | Others found they had not even recorded all of the interviews . |
| 29 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 30 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |