Example sentences of "i had [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had also just complimented her on her dress . |
| 2 | I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname . |
| 3 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 4 | I had never fully appreciated what gens the Finzi set in particular contains , with the languorously beautiful ‘ Romance ’ — second of the five — sounding like a variation on the spiritual , Deep River , and the final ‘ Fughetta ’ a breezy and witty hornpipe . |
| 5 | I had never really felt it before or known what it meant . |
| 6 | I had also discovered that I had never really loved him . ’ |
| 7 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 8 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 9 | My mother had lived my life until half a year ago when I had so briefly lived my own and in the process destroyed it . |
| 10 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 11 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |