Example sentences of "[coord] i had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 2 | I knew that three deaths in my immediate vicinity within four years had to look suspicious , and I had already planned my reaction carefully . |
| 3 | It was one of those trivial things and I had entirely forgotten it when Mrs Rumney phoned again . |
| 4 | and I had never felt it anywhere else and I 've never felt it since ! |
| 5 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 6 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 7 | She seldom sounded Yorkshire and I had never known her to make a joke . |
| 8 | At that time they were unobtainable in Greece , and I had never used them before . |
| 9 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 10 | And I had foolishly thought it would be the easiest fee I 'd ever earned . |
| 11 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I had heard of Genesis but I had never heard them . |
| 13 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 14 | True , the religious believed that death was only physical ; but I had never allowed my instinctive religious feelings to come to the surface . |
| 15 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |
| 16 | He was hesitating , but I had now shot my bolt . |