Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] i had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 2 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
| 3 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
| 4 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 5 | so I wanted to try and go for the C C Q , this is it , this is what we 're gon na ask you and of course it did n't work but I had to try it to see . |
| 6 | ‘ The shop-owner rang me and said she would n't move until I had found her a house , ’ she explained . |
| 7 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , I did n't have until I had to swap them all round |
| 9 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 10 | My poor old feet did suffer and I had to have them sorted out not so long ago . |
| 11 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 12 | ‘ You could say that I had worked my fingers to the bone for you ! ’ |