Example sentences of "[vb infin] that i had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it .
2 Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it .
3 I could not believe that I had got my first job .
4 But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’
5 I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’
6 It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially .
7 ‘ You could say that I had worked my fingers to the bone for you ! ’
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