Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
| 2 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 3 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 4 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 5 | Less than one hour had passed since I had found Froggy 's body , but it felt a lot longer . |