Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I had made that plain . ’ |
| 2 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 3 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 4 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In the good old days , the days I now call BC , Before Cancer , I had kept these Mafia , these hyenas at bay . |
| 7 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 8 | I had thought it all through ; I reckoned I had covered all possibilities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had imagined that friendship meant giving up privacy , and closeness meant complete submersion in the other person . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But then I decided I had broken enough hands tonight . |
| 14 | I had reached optimum trust in my balance and my feet . |
| 15 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , within half-a-circuit I had reached 800 ft . |
| 17 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 18 | I decided to visit the Marines that evening and , after thanking Mick for his hospitality , made my way back to the orchard , thinking that as I had visited each Commando unit each day when we were in England , why not now that we were in France ? |
| 19 | I had blocked those thoughts . |
| 20 | The next morning , after I had drunk some coffee and sat for an hour with the first suggestions of boredom stirring inside me , the Feldwebel who had enjoyed the ride in the Mercedes so much came to the door . |
| 21 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
| 22 | I had studied certain aspects of the law to some purpose . |
| 23 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 24 | Peter Little won the race and Andy Pitts came second , but I had beaten three others who had originally been selected ahead of me , including Cameron Sharp , who the following year was to have a great outdoor season . |
| 25 | As an urban creature I had dubbed these conditions ‘ inconvenient ’ and ‘ primitive ’ . |
| 26 | I got on well with Rosemary right from the start , soon realising that though I had lost one friend , I had found another . |
| 27 | I had lost four points for having only one hand on the wheel ‘ when initiating braking ’ , three for ‘ incorrect hand positions when cornering ’ , three for ‘ exceeding the permitted rev limit ’ and so on to a total of 27 errors . |
| 28 | I had lost two teeth , one eye was closed , and an ear torn . |
| 29 | I had lost two stones since joining the RAF . |
| 30 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |