Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 2 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 3 | and I had a very sheltered life , I was an only child , I had n't been around much , I had n't stayed away from home erm and I came to Suffolk to visit a girl penfriend who was working at Brandeston Hall and erm she at that time was expecting to get engaged to a chappy in the village here who was , and still is a friend of Hector 's and ours , and they did n't marry in the finish but she at that time wanted me to come up to Suffolk to see her and to meet this chappy who she thought she was going to marry and erm so , it was holiday from the art school where I was and I thought well why not ? |
| 4 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 5 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 6 | I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me . |
| 7 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 8 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 9 | We were taken off for a shower — which was welcome as I had n't washed properly since the night before I left London- and then shown our beds in the barrack rooms on the second and third floors . |
| 10 | And the reason why they were shoved under the bed was because I had n't got round to sort of you know , doing anything about it sort of thing . |
| 11 | Alright it was your I wished I had n't got there to be quite honest but cold as that |
| 12 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 13 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 14 | Not only had I written to ask Mr Briggs more about him , I had also written twice to Mrs Fairfax . |
| 15 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's brilliant , a Verdon for bumblies ’ I had joyfully called down to Mick , on climbing the first of these pitches during an earlier attempt . |
| 17 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 18 | I had previously done likewise at the London magazine , Midweek , which I then edited . |
| 19 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 20 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 21 | It was quite an occasion in more ways than one , for I had not travelled abroad since my arrival in England back in 1967 . |
| 22 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 23 | For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained . |
| 24 | I was very glad to see that side of him again , I can tell you , and gladder still that I had not succeeded yet in eradicating it . |
| 25 | I had also discovered that I had not put in with the ‘ essential documents ’ a vital letter — the one which contained Kathy and Len 's address , so here I was arriving in Perth , knowing nobody and without an address to go to ! |
| 26 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 27 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 28 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 29 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |