Example sentences of "[conj] i had [vb pp] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 2 | I touched his chest , remembering that I had wanted to desert him once . |
| 3 | The police sounded surprised that I had bothered to call them , and I walked back to the boatyard feeling strangely foolish . |
| 4 | That I had managed to stop them was a major achievement on my part . |
| 5 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 6 | It was not surprising that I had come to hate her . |
| 7 | ‘ Because it was felt that I had got to know you two a bit yesterday . |
| 8 | Once I had longed to see him . |
| 9 | I said I was not commencing duties until the next day as my girlfriend worked in Richmond and I had arranged to see her , which I had , by phone . |
| 10 | ‘ It was the last day of school and I had intended to phone you later although I had n't decided what to say . ’ |
| 11 | Hugo kept telling me my body was glorious and I had come to believe him . |
| 12 | She was screaming and waggling her legs for all she was worth , but the cruel loops of nylon had her about the wrists , the kite was in the jaws of the wind , and she was already well out of reach even if I had wanted to catch her . |
| 13 | ‘ If I had tried to seduce you , ’ he growled , ‘ you would know it . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps the worst scourge is the thought that you might have listened and might have understood if I had managed to tell you what had happened . |
| 15 | ‘ If I had wished to have you , I would have done so . ’ |
| 16 | But I had wanted to break it off after Taunton . |
| 17 | Enough , but I had had to spoil it then with a little arrogant turn of phrase . |
| 18 | The white man told the askaris to take my animal after I had offered to exchange it . |
| 19 | Her story emerged only after I had got to know her very well . |
| 20 | After I had got to know them both , I showed Carole a video of our first meeting and went through what had happened with her . |
| 21 | I happened to have with me the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth on my trip to the Dales as I had forgotten to return it to the public library , and you have my word that I dropped it the instant I was made aware that they were harbouring a drug addict . |
| 22 | I wept : for I had longed to see him hanged . |