Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I too realized I had made the right decision to stay put in hospital . |
| 2 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 3 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 4 | I had moved the rubber-handled wrench from the right side of the driver 's seat to the left but I knew its presence was mostly psychological . |
| 5 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 6 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 7 | I had reached the 11th but was a long way off the green . |
| 8 | The moment I had reached the Rhossili car park at the start of my walk , I realised that the mildness of this sunny spring day was being blown to bits out on Worm 's Head . |
| 9 | I had reached the dizzy heights of compère at the Fiesta , one of the North 's most prestigious night clubs , where I did an hour spot and introduced acts like Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson , as well as all the top British acts . |
| 10 | Unfortunately I had shut the stable door after the horse had fled . |
| 11 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 12 | I had regarded the English language almost as my own private possession , something which was mine by right , and now it seemed that I was going to have to fight to hang on to it , as I was having to fight for everything else . |
| 13 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 14 | If so I had fulfilled the whole gospel of Darwinism ’ . |
| 15 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 16 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 17 | Falconry is not a sport confined to women , but on this occasion I felt I had seen the perfect emblem for the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ . |
| 18 | The day I had seen the large round blob in my lung . |
| 19 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 20 | When I arrived in the airport I had seen the local paper which reported the sighting of one near Isafjördur . |
| 21 | I headed out of town and found the path through the woods where earlier I had seen the white hound running . |
| 22 | I had survived the second lap but an ordinary rest would be inadequate now . |
| 23 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 24 | Twenty years ago I walked along it , half hoping to find a lost domain , and when I had crossed the small brick bridge over a stream I suddenly saw Wood Dalling Hall sailing like some proud ship above hawthorn hedges and ancient meadows , as beautiful and as Norfolk as could be . |
| 25 | I must explain here that , as neither Nigel nor I had religion , I had arranged the two speakers and then planned to say a few words myself , to thank everyone , in and out of sight . |
| 26 | Lord above , I thought I had endured the worst of insults already this day ! |
| 27 | ( I had dreaded the other meetings with her too , had n't I. Yes I had . ) |
| 28 | And I had locked the back door . |
| 29 | I had intended the whole play to be accompanied by light drum taps to accentuate the beats ( esp . |
| 30 | ‘ By the time I had scored the third time I did n't feel tired . |