Example sentences of "i had [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interest in music that I had rather forgotten about until the thought of Millie in the lane reminded me . |
| 2 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 3 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 4 | I afterwards met Mr Blair at the Congress , and observing his deep solicitude for Kildalton , I admitted the claims which its neglected state had upon my faith and affection , and remarked that it was not the pecuniary sacrifice that I should make that would deter me , so much as the expenditure I had lately incurred on my House and Glebe , and which would in a measure be thrown away , by my moving to Islay . |
| 5 | I thought of cold nights in Edinburgh and went everywhere with a relaxation I had rarely felt in Peru . |
| 6 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 7 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 8 | Read had not been particularly interested in my political book ( which I had submitted to him in fulfilment of the option clause in my contract with Routledge , so I got together some more representative pieces and sent them to Eliot , no least because he had published my article on ‘ Philosophy and Politics ’ in The Criterion , and because I had again spoken about my plans at our first meeting after the war . |
| 9 | Yet some of the people concerned would be people I was at school with ; and in any case it would cal 1 upon questions and allegiances that I had continuously pushed into the rear recesses of my mind . |
| 10 | My step lightened , I was full of energetic high spirits , and during the summer term I even became keen on playing tennis , which I would practise with the assiduousness I had formerly devoted to the piano . |
| 11 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 12 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 13 | I had n't ridden for three years . |
| 14 | ‘ I had n't planned on going back tonight . ’ |
| 15 | Well as I say I had n't , I had n't planned on going anywhere . |
| 16 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 17 | ‘ I had n't realised at the time how tough it was , ’ he admits . |
| 18 | You do record production for other bands , and you did the original demos for Van Halen , which I had n't realised until recently . |
| 19 | I had n't noticed to be honest . |
| 20 | Funny thing , I had n't noticed before what a one-horse town this was . |
| 21 | Cleo tore off towards a fold-up dining-room table on which a hairy brown cat I had n't noticed until now had begun to stir and stretch . |
| 22 | I had n't bargained for the next difficulty : ‘ It wo n't work , ’ he commented , ‘ because my son smokes and he 'll take pity on me and give me one when I run out . ’ |
| 23 | Of course I had n't bargained on technology , because once the hide is cut to size and checked for blemishes it 's actually put on a cutting form and sent through a roller press . |
| 24 | Coffee , croissants and the morning papers had seemed very attractive on setting out , but I had n't bargained on being stuck for ages in Kilburn on the way home . |
| 25 | And eventually I found a job er as assistant to the er clerking to the rating officer , who had also been a member of t , who was a member of the chapel , and er knew I was looking for a job and er , I had n't written to him cos I did n't know this one was coming up . |
| 26 | At any rate the effect was the same as if I had n't written at all . |
| 27 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 28 | And I remember , too , those I had n't eaten by the time I got home we hung on the tree . |
| 29 | I probably would have stayed longer if I had n't fallen in love with Isobel . |
| 30 | ‘ I wish I had n't run after you ! |