Example sentences of "[vb past] i have [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 2 | By the time I was ten it seemed I had lived backstage to so many of those early film sets . |
| 3 | Me , I had reached the bottom of the bottle and figured I had lost enough for one weekend . |
| 4 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 5 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 6 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 7 | I knew I had camped here with my parents in 1915 on our way back to Addis Ababa , but the place brought back no recollections . |
| 8 | ‘ I really thought I had done enough after being recalled against Pakistan . ’ |
| 9 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 10 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 11 | Yet every time I thought I 'd broken out of that cage you pushed me back again . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I thought I 'd done well by managing to last two and a half minutes without coming up for air he said . ’ |
| 13 | I thought I 'd woken up in Heaven . |
| 14 | ‘ When you said something about the real tragedy for anyone facing a handicap is when expected support is withdrawn , then yesterday at your flat I realised that you thought I 'd walked out on Jennifer when I discovered she had MS . |
| 15 | You thought I 'd got off with him for fuck 's sake ! |
| 16 | He was a good playmate and he and I enjoyed playing " horses " where one would " drive " the other in turns with string as harness — and he told me years later it was a bitter disappointment to him when I said I 'd grown out of the game . |
| 17 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |