Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] i had [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I was so outraged at this preposterous suggestion , that I got excited and was in danger of making a scene , but Philip Corder and Ian Richmond quietly took me away until I had cooled down .
2 Strangely , it was as though the wave had chosen me more than I had chosen it .
3 Bill made a determined effort to push me aside and I had to let him .
4 ‘ Put it this way , there would be an entirely different figure on him now if I had to name a price , even though he is 32 in January .
5 I told him simply that I had felt ill at a very unfortunate moment .
6 She had described them earlier and I had known what she meant .
7 He had hit it once and I had taken my hand out from under my chin preparatory to ducking when Paul , the bomb and its little halo-pool and everything else for about ten metres around suddenly vanished inside a climbing column of sand and steam and flying rock , lit just the once from inside , in that blindingly brief first moment , by the high explosive detonating .
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