Example sentences of "i had make " in BNC.
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| 31 | That was where I had made my bed , back in the mid-sixties . |
| 32 | Some of the nets in use were those I had made myself . |
| 33 | I almost fainted when I read your letter , confronted by that terrible mistake I had made . |
| 34 | After a long look I had made up my mind to continue 18 . |
| 35 | He was amazed with the improvement I had made and it showed just what can be achieved with hard practice . |
| 36 | ‘ But over a couple of months of pilot programmes , I simply felt I had made a mistake by leaving . |
| 37 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 40 | I had made so many enemies . |
| 41 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 42 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
| 43 | I had made them welcome , accepted their nonsensical stories because it did n't matter one way or the other , and then gone obligingly off to bed and left them to their meeting … |
| 44 | And now that I thought about it , I had vaguely wondered at the ‘ good time ’ I had made on my walk from the cottage , and at the leisurely stretch of time I had had on the island . |
| 45 | They thought I had made a huge mistake in getting rid of the old collection in preference for collecting what they unanimously regarded as ‘ junk ’ . |
| 46 | In January , for the Guardian , I wrote an article about the pilgrimage I had made , in the hard-act-to-follow footsteps of Eco and Baudrillard , to the sprawling , ever-expanding complex of theme parks in Orlando , Florida . |
| 47 | Much better than the copy that I had made , which as I said was this miniature sideways thatched farmhouse there in the right margin . |
| 48 | But I had made up my mind that I must not get emotional , so I hid all my feelings . |
| 49 | This was the most dramatic move I had made in all my twenty-two years , and , buoyed up by ten cans of lager , I was convinced it was a good idea . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | It certainly was n't too late to tell somebody that in fact I had made a terrible mistake and that I wanted to go home . |
| 52 | I was surprised that I had made it this far . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | I was then able to use this in my Elu96 router along with templates I had made to cut the mitres on both rails and uprights ( the router seems to be the most important part of my kit these days ) . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | ‘ 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 . |
| 57 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 58 | I had made an interesting discovery . |
| 59 | Now I saw the full implications of the concessions I had made , and how compromised I had become . |
| 60 | I realized I had made a mistake . |