Example sentences of "i had [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [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 | Not only had I written to ask Mr Briggs more about him , I had also written twice to Mrs Fairfax . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 6 | I had previously done likewise at the London magazine , Midweek , which I then edited . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I had just got up from my chair when the crash happened . |
| 16 | I had just got out of bed and was reaching for my dressing gown when an explosion shook the house . |
| 17 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |
| 18 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 19 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 20 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 21 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 22 | I had never knelt down in front of anyone . |
| 23 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 24 | Now I was about to meet him again , it was as if I had suddenly woken up from a syrupy dream . |
| 25 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Fear , real fear , is something I had only experienced once in my life , and that , strangely enough , was not on the round-the-world race , but in my own little boat , and in my own waters off Blakeney . |
| 28 | I had now turned right across the width of the mill where another staircase led up to the top floor . |
| 29 | Edwards said : ‘ The most I had ever scored before for Wigan was four tries — I never dreamt I 'd score ten . |
| 30 | 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 . |