Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 2 | His answer was very clever : no one could really account for their movements but once again Benjamin and I had drunk deeply from the cup of failure . |
| 3 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 4 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 5 | ‘ I had heard much about the Island , but could not have been prepared for the spectacle of some three hundred and eight square miles ’ says Val , ‘ I had five days in which to explore and photograph the unfamiliar panorama which stretched before me . ’ |
| 6 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 7 | I had stepped straight off the ferry from Dover and had nothing in my pockets except a disposable razor and my toothbrush . |
| 8 | This was a joy for me as I had puzzled often on the jumble of tops visible from the A82 and in the mass of high peaks this area contains . |
| 9 | ‘ I adored Bristol and if I had to live anywhere in the world , I would come back and live here . |
| 10 | My morning sickness I had explained away as the bug starting and a lot of the time it was sickness at an evening meal . |
| 11 | I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done . |
| 12 | A new girl whom I had met previously at the school exchange joined my class and because the girl who had been my original friend still wanted my friendship in particular , jealousy began as both people wanted me ( oh , oh , so popular , eh ? ! ! ) |
| 13 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 14 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 15 | It was difficult to believe that the Birdman ( I never did learn his name ) was the same man I had watched earlier in the day catching puffins on the cliffs beyond the village . |
| 16 | My actions may or may not have been right and , as I said in court , I wish with hindsight that I had thought more about the late take-up . |
| 17 | I had entered fully into the shared joys of Christian experience , but I had never quite gained the satisfaction that other Christians seemed to have . |
| 18 | ‘ Making ten films is truly boring , ’ he says ‘ If I had worked continuously with the same cameraman , I would n't have been able to get up in the morning . |
| 19 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 20 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 21 | I had speculated endlessly during the week about Conchis , and as futilely as endlessly . |
| 22 | She had turned away from the food-processing factories and chemical plants spewing bilious yellow smoke to gaze towards the east , to the mouth of the Estuary where the river ran out into the North Sea . |
| 23 | She had turned inland at the right spot she was sure . |
| 24 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 25 | Perhaps the toner fluid intoxicated her — there were over a hundred sheets to copy — or maybe it was the lack of air in the photocopying room , but after we had done and she had commented favourably on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the notes , she asked me to go out with her . |
| 26 | As it turned out , the police officer concerned told us that , provided the details Carol remembered under hypnosis tallied precisely with the details she had given immediately after the crime , there would be no problem . |
| 27 | Nor , she was sure , Bert , whom she had seen yesterday for the first time as a potentially responsible comrade . |
| 28 | As she did not want to reveal how much Shildon had reported , she had to sit again through the complicated story of the sale of the lease . |
| 29 | It was an ancient emotion for Blanche , calling her home from the wasteland of tension and anger she had tramped across for the past few months . |
| 30 | Of course ; he did n't know that she had stood there in the darkness and listened to the proofs of his betrayal . |