Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once . |
| 2 | This is vintage Biffen on 19 December 1990 in a speech in which he was kind enough to comment favourably on some remarks I had made in Parliament the previous week on the same subject : |
| 3 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 4 | Over the years Fred Workman and I had kept in touch and in a note with his 1973 Christmas card he had mentioned Edna 's rise to fame and fortune , and gave me her address . |
| 5 | When I had lived in Uganda I was the first daughter , after five boys , my parents and brothers , they really loved me , they hardly refused me anything . |
| 6 | If I had done the things he has done , if I had copulated with whores so indiscriminately and shamelessly , then I too would expect to find some signs of such evil upon my frame . |
| 7 | After I had moved into Chelsea Terrace , life for both of us quickly settled into a routine . |
| 8 | ‘ I had moved to France with the very firm intention of trying to write a novel ; the other books [ including the bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence ] got in the way . |
| 9 | Herbert and I had moved to rooms in a house by the river , in the Temple area . |
| 10 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 11 | For one who , when left alone would get out the frying pan , pour in a little oil — I had converted from lard — and then proceed to fry a mixed grill of bacon , eggs , bread , mushrooms and tomatoes , the idea of pulses and sprouting beans were as alien as the little bug-eyed monsters from outer space . |
| 12 | By the time I had children of my own , I had overcome by fear to a great extent but I was still a little nervous . |
| 13 | Three cups of neat Malibu mixed well with the rose wine and Armagnac I had drunk at supper and I felt garrulous and cheerful , confiding in strangers and telling the story of my life . |
| 14 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 15 | I had decided against Ecuador : people I had spoken to made it sound cosy , like Switzerland , and there was no easy way from it to Brazil . |
| 16 | I met most of my party there because I had flown from Stavanger and they had arrived via Oslo , but we all boarded the plane bound for Longyearbyen with great anticipation . |
| 17 | Now that I had turned against John to protect myself , everybody blamed me . |
| 18 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 19 | The editor had kindly accepted an article I had written about West Indian gospel music , so I thought I would go to the head office and introduce myself . |
| 20 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |
| 21 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 22 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 23 | Some months earlier I had written to Sir Sidney Barton who , fortunately for me , was still British Minister in Addis Ababa , asking him to obtain the Emperor 's permission for me to follow the Awash river through the Danakil country to discover where and how it ended . |
| 24 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 25 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 26 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 27 | as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then . |
| 28 | I had sought to interest some of the more enterprising newspapers , especially as I hoped to be able , if possible , to push on to Abyssinia ; but , in the end , I went in independence , as I have undertaken most excursions , both terrestrial and mental . |
| 29 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 30 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |