Example sentences of "[conj] i had [adj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May I just say I went to erm Johnstown yesterday because I had half promised our friends here that I would go to support them . |
| 2 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 3 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 4 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 5 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 6 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 7 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 8 | The gallery was full and the gallery owner looked happier than when I had last seen him . |
| 9 | The Spartan asceticism in the attic as I had first experienced it was giving way to small comforts . |