Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] " 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 am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 4 | Our new semantic understanding was therefore linked to the changing epiphenomena of dress , hair , clothing , and the other symbols of the body I have mentioned ; but it was also manifest in an irrepressible need to reinterpret and question the social condition , for I had journeyed beyond the norms of the police system , where action to control is preferably a simple matter of enforcing the rules and regulations as they stand . |
| 5 | Apart from witnessing the now infamous inscription Terribilis ist locus est ( ‘ This is a terrible place ’ ) , incised above the church porch , I had journeyed in vain . |
| 6 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 7 | Though I had made up my mind . |
| 8 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 9 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 10 | Here , in sequence , are quotations from Helen 's letters to Janet Aldis : Do you remember Janet ? , when I saw you last I told you of a plan I had made , regarding the boy who father is taking up , and who writes Nature sketches . |
| 11 | I had made proposals on National Insurance but that , said Nigel , was a Budget matter . |
| 12 | It was a pilgrimage I had had to make , and I was glad I had made it . |
| 13 | It was the first time I had made this mistake , but Bamba immediately turned and ran back to us . |
| 14 | I had made it . |
| 15 | By Christmas 1942 I had settled down pretty well at B.P. I had made friends and was enjoying the camaraderie that was peculiar to wartime organisations . |
| 16 | In this particular Mess I had hardly sat down before I felt completely at home , and before I had finished the meal , I had made up my mind that if this particular unit would have me , this was where I would stay . |
| 17 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 20 | A few more boys arrived and I began to realise the terrible blunder I had made . |
| 21 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 22 | I should still have thought that in securing him from Bolton Wanderers I had made the best bargain of my life . ’ |
| 23 | 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 ! |
| 24 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 25 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 26 | I fingered the mask I had made . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | Vancouver boasted the largest Chinese community in the country , and I had made scores of Chinese-Canadian friends . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |