Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] i had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 2 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 3 | I cast back and suddenly found that I had hooked the bird , which had been feeding avidly , dipping and swooping over the water . |
| 4 | I was called to make a statement and later found that I had won the medal . |
| 5 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |