Example sentences of "[conj] i had gone " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 2 | They would really believe that I had gone completely mad . |
| 3 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 4 | Andrew agreed , and told Service that I had gone to China and was engaged in broadcasting work there . |
| 5 | I told them that I was British , that I had gone to Stuttgart under the British flag . |
| 6 | She sat in the shade of the house wall and she waited , and she knew that I had gone to hide , but she did n't know where . |
| 7 | But true to his plan not to do anything to interrupt , or to deflect me from , my studies , while I was up at Oxford , he took the first opportunity , now that I had gone down , to enlist my services with The Criterion . |
| 8 | Her first commission came about quite casually : ‘ My husband and I had gone to stay with friends and they asked me to do a charcoal drawing of their Dachshund , Rosy . |
| 9 | Joanne had handled the set-up of the press conference in Glasgow and I had gone on to Newcastle Airport to meet the plane there . |
| 10 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 11 | ‘ Close them , ’ she had cried , ‘ you 'll let in the dust ’ , and I had gone down to drink citron pressé with her in the shade . |
| 12 | My mother had looked cheerful and I had gone to bed seeing her cheerful face . |
| 13 | He also agreed to tell the Stapletons that Holmes and I had gone to London , but that we would return to Devonshire soon . |
| 14 | During the last week of the month Olivia and I had gone to stay outside Delhi , in a fort just over the Rajasthani border . |
| 15 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 16 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 17 | I felt so sad but if I had gone there and seen her , how would I have felt ? |
| 18 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 19 | I had also agreed to load up out of sight , though within easy walking distance , of villages — it would be as as if I had gone into the villages for supplies , but this way meant that I would n't attract anyone 's attention . |
| 20 | Having felt pain , I knew I was not dreaming , and I wondered if I had gone mad , though the fact that I had hallucinated , and had shown myself to have such a naive view of God , would be sufficient proof for some . |
| 21 | He ought not to have died , and if I had gone with my mother to the doctor and done my part as a son , I feel as if he need not have done . ’ |
| 22 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 23 | If I should cry , trying to express the inexpressible , that I had walked the wind with archangels , she would have been worried and annoyed ; and if I had gone on to say that I had forfeited those heights and lived now in an unremitting shadowless glare of exposure in a runnel of Hell , she would have feared for my mental health . |
| 24 | What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ? |
| 25 | I suppose if I had gone to school , my life would be completely changed . |
| 26 | Supposing I had gone to the country and said that Germany was rearming and we must rearm , does anybody think that this pacific democracy would have rallied to that cry at that moment ? |
| 27 | I have never stopped caring about her … but I had gone numb . |
| 28 | But I had gone too far . |
| 29 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 30 | Actually , I had fun inventing my own diet because I had gone on diets before , I 'd gone to fat farms , too , but it had never lasted . |