Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 2 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 3 | Alright it was your I wished I had n't got there to be quite honest but cold as that |
| 4 | Not only had I written to ask Mr Briggs more about him , I had also written twice to Mrs Fairfax . |
| 5 | I had previously done likewise at the London magazine , Midweek , which I then edited . |
| 6 | It was quite an occasion in more ways than one , for I had not travelled abroad since my arrival in England back in 1967 . |
| 7 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 8 | For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained . |
| 9 | I was very glad to see that side of him again , I can tell you , and gladder still that I had not succeeded yet in eradicating it . |
| 10 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 11 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 12 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 13 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 14 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 15 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 16 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 17 | Fear , real fear , is something I had only experienced once in my life , and that , strangely enough , was not on the round-the-world race , but in my own little boat , and in my own waters off Blakeney . |
| 18 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 19 | Edwards said : ‘ The most I had ever scored before for Wigan was four tries — I never dreamt I 'd score ten . |
| 20 | He was wearing a navy sweater and a light-coloured shirt and blue jeans , and her heart lurched because time shrank to the moment when she had finally walked away from him , one autumn morning , early , with their love already an awful deadweight in her memory . |
| 21 | She had nearly melted away on the spot . |
| 22 | She had met no one she had even come close to loving . |
| 23 | Spending far too many nights staring wide-eyed into the dark , growing hungry for rest , and irritable , so that this morning she had even spoken sharply to Odette . |
| 24 | I think if she had n't gone away at Christmas she would have gone round the bend |
| 25 | When she had n't conceived again by the following autumn , Lindsay went to see a specialist . |
| 26 | She was as white as a ghost , and her eyes were shadowed as if she had n't slept properly for weeks . |
| 27 | She had n't known much about life , nor had he . |
| 28 | She had n't thought twice about trying to mace the police sergeant earlier . |
| 29 | That she had n't arrived home by one o'clock . |
| 30 | AT1 said that she did not notice any difference in this regard but was nevertheless glad of the opportunity which the review had afforded to meet the Head personally , as she had not done so since her interview on appointment some years previously . |