Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home . |
| 2 | And anyway I carried him half way along and I had to put him down |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 10 | But then I thought , Why would they replace the barrier exactly as I had left it ? |
| 11 | As soon as I had gone they were back . |
| 12 | I regretted the last statement as soon as I had said it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As soon as I had settled him down , I rang the doctor . |
| 15 | Strangely , it was as though the wave had chosen me more than I had chosen it . |
| 16 | I came in yesterday cos I had to decorate it so that er get it tiled , and get it furnished and |
| 17 | Bill made a determined effort to push me aside and I had to let him . |
| 18 | I would be slightly better off if I had paid it . |
| 19 | Everything in Stranraer Gardens was as still as I had left it . |
| 20 | And yes , that fireplace gave me as much pleasure always as I had imagined it would on first sight . |
| 21 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 22 | Now that I had got it out I leaned back in my tubular steel chair with just the suggestion of a smirk on my face . |
| 23 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 24 | I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did . |
| 25 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 26 | ‘ Even if I had said I was , which I am not , though I admit to certain sympathies , I can see that you are prey to the usual set of misconceptions . |
| 27 | I could not remember what she was saying , nor even if I had understood her , but I knew that what she was saying must be , in some sense , significant . |
| 28 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 29 | ‘ Who is he ? ’ he kept repeating over and over again , stony-faced and disbelieving even when I had told him the truth . |
| 30 | Sitting outside my childhood home , waiting for my mother to come home , even though I had watched her die , she thought . |