Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] that i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had decided that I should take control of the aeroplane and try to fly it to England . |
| 2 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 3 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 4 | But I had decided that I was n't going to wear the arrow suit for Truro Daine . |
| 5 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 6 | Until that moment of confrontation I had determined that I would tell the truth . |
| 7 | ‘ I had hoped that I might be able to find you some accommodation around here , but apparently it 's the duty of your local council in London to rehouse you and nobody else wants to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 8 | Also , during my last year at Oxford , I had noticed that I was getting rather clumsy in my movements . |
| 9 | On the subject of personal hygiene and ‘ standards ’ in general , I had noticed that I was beginning to swear rather too much in my own thoughts . |
| 10 | He would not let me off the hook until I had confessed that I could no longer work with my boss . |
| 11 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 12 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 13 | I had said that I would find it easier on my own and she had been hurt , for normal mothers and daughters went together on this expedition , lunching in a department store and discussing the newly acquired contents of the carrier bags that lay at their feet . |
| 14 | If I had felt that I could n't cope with him , I probably would have had him adopted , or had an abortion , but it was my choice to have him . |
| 15 | It was the kind of illogical fear of the supernatural that in others made me sneer ; but all along I had felt that I was invited not out of hospitality , but for some other reason . |
| 16 | At first I had suggested that I should keep her company but she dismissed the idea at once : ‘ I am not a child , and I refuse to be treated as one ’ , and I guessed she wanted to be alone rather as a young girl might who sets out to post an imaginary letter , hoping to meet on the way the person for whom she has made herself beautiful . |
| 17 | I had thought that I might ride in a carretta to the edge of the desert , and then walk away over the sand and into the sun . |
| 18 | ‘ If I had thought that I 'd bump into you , believe me , I would never have agreed . ’ |
| 19 | Having attended the majority of Linfield 's matches , I had thought that I should be entitled to a ticket to see my other favourites , i.e. , Manchester United . |
| 20 | I had thought that I was the only murderer in the family , but old Eric beat me to it , killing his mum before he had even drawn breath . |
| 21 | I had resolved that I would try an alliance with him , persuading him not to create a female creature and helping him to hunt down and exterminate the creature already at large in the world . |
| 22 | Simply I had known that I could n't go on living with my mother . |
| 23 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 24 | By this time she had decided that I was utterly irresponsible ( in spite of my record toast-making ) , and she said that I should wear warmer clothes . |
| 25 | It was only after she had gone that I started to ponder why she had confided so much in me . |
| 26 | She had suggested that I should go and fill it , but there had been ice and snow outside , and darkness , and to reach the coal I should have to climb down into the concrete bunker . |
| 27 | Years later she told me that she had regretted that I did not include some of his mother 's receipts in my life of Cavafy . |
| 28 | It was Laura who had first recruited me to this task , she who had seen that I might be involved . |
| 29 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 30 | On the road I had taken when coming to Dalkania there were several long stiff climbs up treeless hills , and when I mentioned the discomforts of this road to the villagers they had suggested that I should go back via Haira Khan . |