Example sentences of "[adv] i had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Well , I I was fairly new in the company myself so I had n't worked for his father for long before took over the managership or chairmanship or whatever he is , so I I 'm really not too sure about the whole thing but certainly for a quarry manager or quarry director or owner , he did n't really know the slate as well as the workers , and he was expecting things out of his workers and the slate , the product , that were really just not on .
2 I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body .
3 Well I had n't got through that had I ?
4 When I actually began to realize that there were advantages to being gay , that changed my whole attitude — up till then I had always thought of it as something to be sorry for , to apologize for .
5 Yet I had not thought of that banner for years .
6 Previously I had never heard of Waugh , nor of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies , novels with which he had made his name .
7 After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem .
8 That 's another problem actually I had n't thought of that .
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