Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 2 | Perhaps if I had allowed myself to be doubtful , I might have understood Mick 's concern about the rules , and his inability to express it without aggressive confrontation . |
| 3 | I had butterflies in my stomach enough and I had to do something , so I grabbed the nearest paw , which belonged to Merlyn Rees . |
| 4 | Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home . |
| 5 | And anyway I carried him half way along and I had to put him down |
| 6 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 7 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
| 8 | The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day . |
| 9 | The school-leaving age — without the exceptions opposed in 1936 by the Local Education Authorities , the National Union of Teachers , Harold Macmillan , Walter Citrine of the TUC , and ( of course ) William Temple — was to be raised to fifteen on 1 April 1947 , and to sixteen as soon as it became practicable ( which , in the event , was not until I had completed my teaching career in secondary schools ) . |
| 10 | I talked utter rubbish for hours , and on the few occasions that I faltered Lorne would break in and take over until I had recovered my strength . |
| 11 | As I said to my husband only last night ( just after I had eaten my miserable Lean Cuisine but just before I finished the box of Black Magic ) : ‘ Is n't it terrible the way we allow advertisers to manipulate us ? ’ |
| 12 | Just after I had passed my driving test I drove up a local hill on the way to my aunt 's house , coming to traffic at a standstill . |
| 13 | The aunts and cousins arrived for their annual break just after I had finished my finals . |
| 14 | I met my teacher 's teacher once , fairly soon after I had finished my first instruments . |
| 15 | Very soon after I had taken my seat a fairly small number of musicians on the stage , of chamber orchestra size , began their rehearsal . |
| 16 | It was one of the medical records clerks who first mentioned the sponsored walk to me when I had visited the hospital to give a lecture to some of the nursing staff shortly after I had started my maternity leave . |
| 17 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 18 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 19 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 20 | And yet again he let the silence come , as if the silence would answer my questions better than he could himself ; but just when I had decided he would not answer , he spoke . |
| 21 | At last I gained the crest of a rise , and there below me stretched the sloping flat rocks , and yes , the mermaids were there , their fur dry in the sun , their bodies slick and contented , their eyes closed , enjoying the afternoon , exactly as I had done myself . |
| 22 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 23 | But then I thought , Why would they replace the barrier exactly as I had left it ? |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | As soon as I had gone they were back . |
| 26 | I regretted the last statement as soon as I had said it . |
| 27 | " As soon as I had realized what he had said I returned home again immediately . " |
| 28 | She put a condom on me and we got stuck in , but as soon as I had ejaculated she whipped the condom off me , leaving me floundering for a while on the bed . |
| 29 | I was determined to return as soon as I had taken my degree , to follow the Awash river into the fabulous Sultanate of Aussa and discover how and where it ended . |
| 30 | As soon as I had settled him down , I rang the doctor . |