Example sentences of "[conj] i had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 2 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 3 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 4 | ‘ I was under the impression that I had explained it to you . |
| 5 | The very existence of the flood — the fact that I had invited it into my awareness — showed that I had emotional ‘ work ’ to do . |
| 6 | This is when I came to suspect that I had missed something of importance . |
| 7 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 8 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 9 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 10 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 11 | When one day I tidied up and cleared out this cupboard , I realised that I had ignored everything in it for over a year . |
| 12 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |
| 13 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 14 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 15 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 16 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 17 | My parents both died before I left the School of Italian Studies so I had heard nothing about my family for over ten years . |
| 18 | Alarm clocks were unobtainable , so I had brought one from home , antiquated and enormous , with a bell like a fire-alarm , and I used to lie tense and rigid waiting for it to ring . |
| 19 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
| 20 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 21 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 22 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 23 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 24 | She had brought her own armchair , and I had put it in my place — the best place — near the fire . |
| 25 | Beth had invoked the help of God or Jesus Christ and I had taken it like a lamb . |
| 26 | I was due to pay my second visit to my surgeon after my operation , and I had committed myself to returning to the Centre for a day visit at the end of October . |
| 27 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 28 | ‘ It is not a birth-mark and , if I had rid myself of my preconceptions , I would have recognized it for what it is , on superficial examination of the subject . ’ |
| 29 | I killed her as surely as if I had stabbed her with a knife , shot her with a gun , squeezed her neck between my hands . |
| 30 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |