Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening .
2 One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose .
3 I had lost even the will to be a coward .
4 I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature .
5 I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home .
6 Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks .
7 Everything of mine at that stage was still packed , but I had set aside a separate box for tea and coffee things so tea was easy to arrange .
8 One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself .
9 I had come home a day early .
10 Suppose I had put aside a little , even a little , of that money , for myself , what would I have now ?
11 I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ?
12 I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple .
13 ‘ I wis lost for a while , because I had went there every day .
14 So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact .
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