Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 2 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 3 | By the time I was ten it seemed I had lived backstage to so many of those early film sets . |
| 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 had wanted to return to Scapa for some time , to refresh my memories of that extraordinary and beautiful place and of the strange life I had lived there for nearly three years . |
| 6 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 7 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 8 | I did n't want to risk Mrs Long , and Mrs Travers knew where I had moved on to , so giving her name could cause problems as well . |
| 9 | I had moved on to selling friends ' addresses to the Chief-Corporal , and in return for the names and numbers of two Sloane girlfriends I had got the bed nearest the stove . |
| 10 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 11 | I had moved out to Fernhill , too , leaving the world of the ‘ room and kitchen ’ with relief . |
| 12 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 13 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 14 | His answer was very clever : no one could really account for their movements but once again Benjamin and I had drunk deeply from the cup of failure . |
| 15 | I liked her from the moment I met her , and I well recall the occasion — I had turned up at their place and she appeared in the yard from the shed carrying buckets of milk . |
| 16 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 17 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 18 | Me , I had reached the bottom of the bottle and figured I had lost enough for one weekend . |
| 19 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 20 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 21 | Tiredness , the excitement of the journey and of sitting , so late , at a pavement café such as I had seen only in films ( these agreeable continental institutions had not yet spread to London , far less pre-Festival Edinburgh ) , as well as the unaccustomed intake of alcohol , all made my head reel . |
| 22 | She added , ‘ He 's very good to Margaret ’ , and I felt that simultaneously she had nodded towards the past while affirming the present and that I had fallen somewhere between the two : nothing but the body of a ghost , nebulous and deserted . |
| 23 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 24 | I realised writing How Far Can You Go ? how little of the conceptual faith I had grown up with I still retained … ’ |
| 25 | I had grown up with class but it was a shifting , unstable , changing force and you fancied across it regardless , for the world was open . |
| 26 | After all , I had grown up with her and Hindley . |
| 27 | I had grown up in Addis Ababa where there were few permanent buildings other than the Legations . |
| 28 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 29 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 30 | Instead , in rebellion against the illusions of the stage and films , I had run away from home and joined the Marines . |