Example sentences of "that i had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Now was not the time to say that I had danced only on the boards of my Leeds bedroom … ) |
| 2 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 3 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 4 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 5 | I wrote that I had done so before going to Athos . |
| 6 | For myself , I pretended that I had left home with full approval , inventing for myself a Harrogate doctor father , fleshing out an imaginary family … . |
| 7 | About five weeks before that I had come home in my first university term , and got undressed for my bath in front of the bathroom mirror . |
| 8 | Whatever it was , I began to be aware of all the doubts , of all the rational thoughts that I had put away in my pursuit of ‘ complementary ’ medicine . |
| 9 | They were spreading rumours that Mac and I knew the starter and that I had got away with a false start . |
| 10 | My actions may or may not have been right and , as I said in court , I wish with hindsight that I had thought more about the late take-up . |
| 11 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |