Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] i [vb past] [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 | Two had left so I visited them at home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |