Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had misunderstood the name of the film , and not dared ask too many questions . |
| 2 | Thank you to the person who arrived unknowingly on my doorstep and gave me a really sympathetic cuddle while I cried for 10 minutes ( ? ) in relief that I had misunderstood the doctor . |
| 3 | I began to realize how inadequate my picture of Laura was ; that I had made no room in my thoughts for an independent life of her own , let alone one as earthed and pragmatic as the potter 's craft . |
| 4 | I had made no arrangements for that first night . |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I realized I had made a mistake . |
| 11 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I could not in those days , see God for his creature , of whom I had made an idol . |
| 18 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 19 | I had made the journey from Aix a dozen years earlier . |
| 20 | We had had our school trial in the concrete playground and I had made the team ; so here I was , complete with black Curtis plimsolls ( I had had to ask my Mum to buy me a pair ) and white ‘ Alf Ramsey ’ shorts . |
| 21 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 22 | It was better once I had rounded the corner and I set off at a brisk pace for the west . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 26 | By this time I had joined the Scouts and had reached the dizzy heights of Patrol Leader . |
| 27 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 28 | Anyway , I explained to Auntie , I had joined the army , and was being sent to London ; and I wanted to see her , and get her blessings . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , I had joined the Home Civil Service in the Department of Agriculture for Scotland at St Andrew 's House . |
| 30 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |