Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 2 | I did n't dare return to the-place where I 'd killed him because I could easily arouse suspicion . |
| 3 | Later I saw blood on my hand where I 'd grabbed him . |
| 4 | Blood ran from his face where I had cut it , but I had fought too many fights that night . |
| 5 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 6 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 7 | I had registered for my classes , and Professor Ruiperez had shown me my lecture-rooms , where I had introduced myself to large classes of students , mixed men and women , with a preponderance of women , as is usual in foreign arts faculties . |
| 8 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 9 | Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal . |
| 10 | Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight . |
| 11 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 12 | I hated the hoop of diamonds which , although I had washed it , looked somehow dirty . |
| 13 | And although I had disappointed her by going into ‘ trade ’ , I was still the son of the house . |
| 14 | They must have come out of a back entrance to the flats and they were intent on avoiding somebody , although I 'd seen nothing suspicious when I 'd cruised down Seymour Place . |
| 15 | Although I 'd had me doubts before , I will admit . |
| 16 | The very stillness of his muscles meant that I 'd touched something he 'd thought hidden . |
| 17 | I was afraid , for a moment , that I 'd lost you . ’ |
| 18 | After I 'd finished the poem I felt triumphant that I 'd broken my fear-silence . |
| 19 | Now that I 'd drawn the incident out from my unconscious , in much the same manner as Doctor Keylock or any of the so-called psychotherapists might have done , now that I 'd faced it , admitted it to myself , thought it all through without holding back from any of the horror of what happened that sunny afternoon seven years ago , I could see that , whoever 's fault the accident might have been , it certainly was n't mine . |
| 20 | Then your Inspector took it into his head that I 'd done it . |
| 21 | I said , " Yes " , and I plugged it that I 'd done it while I 'd had Louisa and that 's what I think went in my favour in a way . |
| 22 | When on Monday before Christmas 1991 I stepped on the scales and found that I 'd done it , I almost died of happiness . |
| 23 | I th there was , there was one big point that I actually missed out as well that neither of you have picked up on and that was that Maggie actually said that they were having problems with John in school and I should 've come back and , and said well she di she actually said that she was having problems with John , full stop , and I should 've actually come back and , and clarified whether it was at school or not and hence led to the private education and I missed that one completely and realized that I 'd done it afterwards but none of you picked up on that one . |
| 24 | I told Spruce a bit about Amy and Hereward 's marriage and I did mention that I 'd seen her here on Friday night and Saturday morning . |
| 25 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 26 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 27 | I did n't know what to say : I could n't believe that I 'd heard him correctly . |
| 28 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 29 | I knew that I 'd loved you from the moment we first met and I 'd never stopped . ’ |
| 30 | I suppose the fact that I 'd made it at the age of 14 was important because it meant I would go a long way in athletics . |