Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [vb pp] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't done this amount of countryside rambling since I was drummed out of the Boy Scouts . |
| 2 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 3 | ‘ Going back to that Monday — I had introduced my secretary to you and , up until the point where he asked if he could drive you back to your hotel , I had n't given any thought as to how you would get back there . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , when I auditioned I had n't heard any music with Peter Gabriel . ’ |
| 5 | I had n't heard any shouting so therefore I did n't believe that anybody else was having any problems . |
| 6 | I had n't amended that bit but I 'll amend it and sta and write up proper . |
| 7 | I had n't seen any show yet — all the books seemed to imply I should have had one by now . |
| 8 | We replaced the police barrier to prevent a repetition of Sal 's sudden decision to travel sideways , although I had n't seen another car on the hill either time I 'd been there . |
| 9 | I began trying to play ‘ God Save the King ’ , but after tapping away for an hour with one finger I had n't made much progress . |
| 10 | ‘ It was an expensive book too , though fortunately I had n't spent any money on it . |
| 11 | I had n't bought any tea and there was an Alan Freeman radio programme on the story of the Kinks that I wanted to listen to . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell me , ’ Harry said as they neared the station , ‘ if I had n't found that letter last night and thrown you out , would you have told me all this ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Damn , if only I had n't had that wine and walked home — well , the man 's a fool . |
| 14 | Well , that 's true , of course , but after all , I would be a different person if I had n't had that sort of childhood . |
| 15 | I had n't had any kind of pain relief — well , there was n't time ! — but the pain , although very intense , was only for a short time , so it was easy for me to bear . |
| 16 | I had n't counted that idea , possibility , you talked about condensing it . |
| 17 | Er well I do n't think I 'd be I do n't think I 'd be going out to play golf if I had n't earned any money . |
| 18 | I was glad I had n't shaved that morning . |
| 19 | If I had n't taken that opportunity I 'm sure I would never have done the things I later did in the refinery business . |
| 20 | It was nicely presented , moreover , and since I had n't taken any eating irons with me I am pleased to report that nobody asked me to cup my hands together to take my Cottage Pie a la Toulon ? |
| 21 | The last thing I remember before the green light for ‘ Go ’ came on was that I had n't brought any Kleenex with me . |
| 22 | I was sorry I had n't brought more water . |
| 23 | I had n't got much time for him and he knew it ! |
| 24 | And I had n't got any change . |
| 25 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 26 | If I had n't put that frock on the lady — she 's my girlfriend by the way — I 'd have had to give her blue nipples . |
| 27 | I had already made one friend who I met on the induction day . |
| 28 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 29 | Though I had worked out every detail for me and the wheelbarrow , I had not given much thought to the Land Rover . |
| 30 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |