Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you know when I when I c last time I came from France and I came a came across the widest part of the channel er I got done once I had a B written on my board and then they come and crossed it out . |
| 2 | I thought of the stack of dirty crocks to tackle after tea , of pictures and furniture that were once polished every week , and now got done when I had the time . |
| 3 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 4 | I heard you 'd left and I had business over here . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
| 6 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 10 | Nour had laughed because I had not heard of Herodotus . |
| 11 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It worried me that I had reacted as I had . |
| 14 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 15 | At first I thought the unlikely had happened and I had a fan out there somewhere . |
| 16 | Less than one hour had passed since I had found Froggy 's body , but it felt a lot longer . |
| 17 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 18 | Even if Neil had returned while I had been asleep , he would take care not to show a light . |
| 19 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 20 | ‘ But when we got married and I had two children he did n't want me to work any more , and he got very jealous of other men looking at me . |