Example sentences of "i had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had peripherally helped out at anti-apartheid offices , even gone on CND Easter Marches when I first came over , but it was always on the sidelines . |
| 2 | The greatest relief was that I had n't called in on my way down or I would have been with them . |
| 3 | ‘ If I had n't leaned out of the rowboat so far … ’ |
| 4 | I suppose if I had n't gone back into that room they 'd have found some other way of leaving the message . ’ |
| 5 | I had n't picked up on it , and he had no hand at all in your coming to work for me . |
| 6 | It was a figure in a mask and a jacksuit with all this gear in pockets all over it , and she had a headset , and one for me , one like I would have had on if I had n't taken off in such a hurry , and she had jets , which no Gnat would have been seen dead with . |
| 7 | What would everyone back at the cafe have thought when , for the first time in eight months , I had n't shown up for work ? |
| 8 | And the reason why they were shoved under the bed was because I had n't got round to sort of you know , doing anything about it sort of thing . |
| 9 | Well I had n't got down to the R yet I had n't reached |
| 10 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 11 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's brilliant , a Verdon for bumblies ’ I had joyfully called down to Mick , on climbing the first of these pitches during an earlier attempt . |
| 13 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 14 | I felt , by doing that , I had effectively stepped back in time and discovered the one thing that should have been thought of before we even harnessed electricity . |
| 15 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 16 | I had also discovered that I had not put in with the ‘ essential documents ’ a vital letter — the one which contained Kathy and Len 's address , so here I was arriving in Perth , knowing nobody and without an address to go to ! |
| 17 | Torrance said : ‘ I have finished 12th and 13th in my last two tournaments and I would have done better in Valencia if I had not driven out of bounds at the last hole . |
| 18 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 19 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 20 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I had just come out of one of my planning meetings and I metaphorically banged the table and said ‘ I know exactly what you should do . ’ |
| 23 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 24 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 25 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 26 | I had never knelt down in front of anyone . |
| 27 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 28 | In the previous two seasons , while I was serving my ban , both Mike Gatting and I had sometimes gone out of our way to push Tuffers in county matches at my expense . |
| 29 | I thought of the most dedicated cricket fanatic I had ever known back in South Africa — a man who despite repeated heart attacks , doctors ' warnings and family entreaties to stop playing the game , had persisted with club cricket to the end , in his sixties diving after slip catches as recklessly as he had in his teens . |