Example sentences of "[conj] i had [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 2 | As for myself , I was back where I had begun in Opposition . |
| 3 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 4 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 5 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |
| 6 | Where I had come from , in the English provinces , the markets were quite small , and reserved for food . |
| 7 | My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving . |
| 8 | In my first flat I had a very large cupboard that was always filled with things I could never find a use for , or I had forgotten about . |
| 9 | Whether it was during a healing , or during one of those morning meditations , I ca n't remember , but I had to assure Christopher that although I had stayed to every meditation and seen it through to the end , and although he had brought God , and probably Jesus Christ in upon several occasions , my original It was as intact as it had ever been . |
| 10 | Although I had escaped from Montfaucon , the ice cold day soon curbed my elation . |
| 11 | Although I had hoped for justice and understanding when my story was known , that was not to be . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 13 | Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig . |
| 14 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 15 | Although I had tarried in the Happy Isles for well over an hour , the actual handjob was the work of a moment — forty-five seconds , I 'd say . |
| 16 | I felt that I had progressed from just wanting to ‘ be gay ’ to being ‘ Black and gay ’ . |
| 17 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 18 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 19 | Sir , It is a sad reflection on the high street banks ' attitude to their customers that I had to rely on FARMERS WEEKLY for financial information vital to the overall profitability of my farming business . |
| 20 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 21 | To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail . |
| 22 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 23 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 24 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 25 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 26 | Although it would be mad to claim that I felt happy , my first feeling was one of cheer that I had escaped from prison . |
| 27 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 28 | Eventually I accepted that I had to leave without my baby . |
| 29 | and financial circumstances and erm , this was something of course that I had to leave to the people who were working got himself another job . |
| 30 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |