Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 2 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 3 | This was the first time I had kept anything from Sarah . |
| 4 | I had joined them on their route marches out of the concentration area at Southampton . |
| 5 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 6 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 7 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 8 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 9 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 10 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 11 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 12 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 13 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 14 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 15 | ‘ The day was over , and from dawn to twilight , or rather from one night to another , I had lost myself in that symphony . ’ |
| 16 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 17 | I had lost it in the sea when swimming away from the ship . |
| 18 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 19 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 20 | I had disguised myself with an old cardigan with faded leather elbow patches and a copy of the Daily Express . |
| 21 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 22 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 23 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 24 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 25 | I had seen her before somewhere . |
| 26 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 27 | ( Looking at her , I was often reminded of the famous Lina Cavalieri as I had seen her in photographs . |
| 28 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 29 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 30 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |