Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't remember the make of car I drove , how my girlfriend looked naked , what I had done before I got my PI licence , what shape my bathroom was , my parents ' names . |
| 2 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 3 | The clouds had thickened and the moon had gone when I left her house and made my way cautiously down the slippery brick path . |
| 4 | JC : I wonder how far the piece had progressed when I engaged you to come and sing with Sadler 's Wells Opera in January 1943 ? |
| 5 | He was a Scotsman depending San Francisco and er situation that what you described but we were handing out food at Christmas Eve to people and people were coming up and er for their own proud they were saying things like I 'm a vegetarian or I do n't eat cheese pasties that was the case that was the only thing you had left but I mean it makes me really angry that we did not have this situation ten or twelve years ago . |
| 6 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 7 | I know that the Julidochromis are a pair , because they had bred before I bought them , but since adding them to my aquarium three months ago , they have n't bred and one — presumably the male — continually chases the other . |
| 8 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |