Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] i [vb past] [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 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd said that , and was , in any case , already regretting the admission . |
| 4 | Yeah and I 'd forgotten that I 'd spoken to her the other night |
| 5 | I 'd forgotten that I 'd agreed to meet her . |
| 6 | I was so overwhelmed that I started to cry . |
| 7 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 8 | Far from looking cool I must have looked like I 'd done a packet in my trousers . |
| 9 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Because it was felt that I had got to know you two a bit yesterday . |
| 19 | I 'd accepted that I 'd joined the club — and there were some really nice people in it . |
| 20 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 21 | I would not like it to be said that I had had my mother put away . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | In normal circumstances , no one would have noticed if I had carried on from there . |
| 25 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 26 | ‘ What would you have done if I 'd gone down ? ’ he asked when we were back on level ground . |
| 27 | ‘ What would you have done if I 'd refused to help ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What might I not have done if I 'd had my own clubs for the first two rounds ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |