Example sentences of "[that] i had [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 2 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 3 | Mrs Sandison senior was sitting in the stern , complaining about the lack of rising fish , and the useless flies that I had mounted on her cast , when the trout grabbed . |
| 4 | Petra surpassed anything that I had visualised in my kitchen fantasy-life . |
| 5 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 6 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 7 | With this background , as a teacher I saw the subject as a collection of facts and skills that I had to impart to my pupils in a well-defined sequence . |
| 8 | Feeling flustered and guilty that I had departed from my normal custom of never working on a pupil 's painting , I foolishly replied " Yes " . |
| 9 | ‘ You thought perhaps that I had forgotten about your existence ? ’ |
| 10 | When I saw his blue eyes open wide in surprise , I felt very sorry I had lied , and that evening , as soon as I found Joe alone for a moment , I confessed to him that I had lied about my visit to Miss Havisham . |
| 11 | The discipline that I had experienced in my schools in Kingston was just not there . |
| 12 | Then she reached over and gently tilted my chin up so that I had to look into her eyes . |