Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point I would like to stress that the tank was overstocked but the number of water changes I made helped avoid any problems . |
| 2 | I asked the under-foreman what I 'd done to deserve this , he says You 're not on your own , there 's er a quarter to go this week and good many next , so that 's what it 's come to . |
| 3 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 4 | In effect , I 'd lost a day and I wondered if there had been something I 'd planned to do that Monday , like work , for instance . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole trial could hang on whether or not I 'd thought to take that stupid , self-centred , mad old woman flowers ? ’ |
| 6 | I did n't know why I 'd agreed to attend this festival . |
| 7 | I could say all the right words about Hilda , I 'd learned to do that in the past few days , talking to people on the phone , but I could n't believe in the phrases the way Susan seemed to . |
| 8 | I was really upset about that — especially as I 'd managed to get some of the best seats in the house . |
| 9 | And then I started to wonder if what I had seen had some connection with the secret telephone calls Jean-Claude made , and the evenings he spent apart from me with nameless friends . |
| 10 | I felt tempted to tell him that I had begun to glimpse some of the mystery behind Selkirk 's verses but my anger kept me silent . |
| 11 | I had begun to desire some balance in my life and after that my socialising was toned down and my private moments stepped up . |
| 12 | I had wanted to spend some time with the Infierno people themselves ; but , caught between two worlds , they had a very understandable fear of their traditional knowledge being ‘ stolen ’ , and did not open up the project to outsiders without good reason . |
| 13 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 14 | I had wanted to help these people and their King . |
| 15 | Above all other expeditions I had wanted to complete this one — to follow in the footsteps of Jean-Claude and his beloved sister , and regain their paradise . |
| 16 | You would not have been able to take in the words I had planned to say that night , the night of number one hundred and fifty-six . |
| 17 | I had hoped to enclose some of her photographs but the collapse of the Serbian postal system prevented me . |
| 18 | The fact that I had failed to find any companions did n't help my cause very much . |
| 19 | I had tried to diet many times before . |
| 20 | If I had tried to impose either of the above on another class I doubt the drama would work . |
| 21 | I had offered to leave most of my collection , comprising the best part , in the USSR , and had simultaneously asked if they would let me take part of it with me . |
| 22 | I waited till we heard him on the stairs , then told them how I had offered to drive this run , but now that I was a passenger it would be against the rules . |
| 23 | I had forgotten to lock that . |
| 24 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 25 | Though I had forgotten to bring any photographs with me , this one seemed empty . |
| 26 | And I had enjoyed buying all those nice new clothes ! |
| 27 | For a year I had worked to make this creature , but now it looked terrible and frightening . |
| 28 | It was only long after her death that I realized how much anger lay under my acceptance of that responsibility and how much energy I had used holding that down . |
| 29 | Afterwards I could n't believe I had managed to say this ; I could n't believe that I 'd had the intelligence , the wit , the inspiration to come up with this perfect reply . |
| 30 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |