Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] the [noun sg] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until I wandered back to the harbour that I realised the wind had freshened . |
| 2 | I expect the crew had tiptoed down very gently from the bunk above while he slept . |
| 3 | I went into the garden and I found the washing had blown away . |
| 4 | For a while I believed the bust-up had done the trick . |
| 5 | I believed the military had notified pilots that a military exercise was taking place so the pilopts were on general alert . |
| 6 | After about a week , I noticed the vehicle had settled about 15mm more on the off-side — noticeable on a level surface . |
| 7 | One afternoon , a week later , I decided the time had come to stop dithering like a Victorian maiden and to write to Bill , when I got off at ten that night , asking if no news was good news . |
| 8 | Late in the afternoon , I decided the time had come to go . |
| 9 | Oh well , I suppose the run had to come to and end . |
| 10 | I suppose the heat had made me edgy : though I knew that to ask for money as a loan was the only way she could keep her dignity , I held an angry conversation with her in my mind . |
| 11 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw the car had gone . |
| 13 | ‘ I — I saw the post had come , ’ Alexandra said desperately , ‘ I wondered if there was anything — interesting , anything at all — ’ |
| 14 | I weighed in by saying that for some reason it no longer appeared in the Radcliffe Camera , as I gathered the library had ceased to subscribe to it . |
| 15 | So I got up then and I spoke to the room you know and we were more or less helping one another out and I thought the Chairman had done well when he said erm they do n't speak er Welsh for fancy or anything they use it as every day . |
| 16 | I thought the plan had failed when , looking back on the hill there , I saw him in the valley . |
| 17 | I thought the Brigadier had told you he suspected him of running some racket on the side . ’ |
| 18 | I thought the doctor had forgotten to draw back the curtain , and I was just about to do it when I heard his voice . |
| 19 | So what happened , I thought the nail had broken off , well I knew that and I |
| 20 | I thought the bank had made an error at first . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So Ballater sold it to you ? ’ he said ‘ I see , ’ He added , I think the kitten had burnt its tongue . ’ |
| 22 | And I hoped the Corporal had noticed I 'd said ‘ you can get to high ground ’ and not ‘ we can get to high ground ’ . |
| 23 | I suspected the trip had to do with the company shutting down this section of the stageline ; Mr. Mendez would see Delgado about closing his station and take an inventory of company property . |
| 24 | I suppose what 's happened is this : he has gone on staring out of the window , thinking , and she has gone on staring at him , waiting , with such absorption that neither of them noticed the tape had run out . |
| 25 | The silence that enclosed me made me feel the world had come to an end , that the trees had not yet been informed but soon would be , and would fall on to the stone and thorn , the heather and the fern , skeletons to be picked over , not by vultures but by time . |
| 26 | But then , to her dismay , she realised the music had stopped . |
| 27 | She believed the department had left itself extremely vulnerable in acting without any form of approval by the committee . |
| 28 | She claimed the King had left a suicide note for his father , saying he wanted to die because he had cancer and could not face an agonising death . |
| 29 | Private Eye is appealing against the record £600,000 damages paid to Mrs Sutcliffe after a seven-day trial last May , in which she alleged the magazine had libelled her by claiming in its ‘ Street of Shame ’ column that she had made a £250,000 deal with the Daily Mail for her story after a night of ‘ carousing ’ with the paper 's journalists in a hotel . |
| 30 | She decided the time had come to leave the bordello , and seek lodgings somewhere in the vicinity of the Pont du Sevres . |