Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 2 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 3 | and he just said oh I 'm so sorry he said I would n't have come if I had known , but there was a massive wreath in the garden where that girl was knocked over |
| 4 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 5 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 6 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 7 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 8 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 9 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 10 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 11 | ‘ Because it was felt that I had got to know you two a bit yesterday . |
| 12 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 13 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 14 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |
| 15 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 16 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 17 | Naturally , my master bowed and I had to follow suit , reminding myself with a secret smile that Wolsey was only a commoner and no better than me . |
| 18 | My involvement with the tunnel did not extend to the rail link which was decided after I had left the department . |
| 19 | I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s . |
| 20 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 21 | I had become so interested in a nice neat pattern that I had n't checked if I had found all the shapes . |
| 22 | I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance . |
| 23 | There was nobody in the park at that time and I walked quickly through the dew , my feet soaked before I had gone ten yards , a trail of sliding tracks behind me on the grass . |
| 24 | Perhaps the worst scourge is the thought that you might have listened and might have understood if I had managed to tell you what had happened . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've stopped because I had hoped you 'd give me an explanation . ’ |
| 26 | Outwardly it must have seemed that I had overcome my emotional difficulties and , apart from the mysterious phenomenon of my continuing thinness , had become a bright , helpful , well-adjusted member of the school . |
| 27 | I cast back and suddenly found that I had hooked the bird , which had been feeding avidly , dipping and swooping over the water . |
| 28 | I was called to make a statement and later found that I had won the medal . |
| 29 | Barely six months earlier , however , another trap had been laid and I had fallen into it with a resounding thud . |
| 30 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |