Example sentences of "i had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never having foreseen James would suddenly develop a sense of extra-office responsibility for me , I had rather let myself go describing the flat of a rich friend which allayed James 's earlier mild concern about where I was living . |
| 2 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 3 | How I had gloriously saved his son and heir . |
| 4 | A new set of feelings about the baby had begun to emerge since I had nearly lost it , and I wanted to be sure that they were going to take root before I risked dispersing them with talk . |
| 5 | I had nearly got myself killed back there : what on earth did I think I was playing at ? |
| 6 | I had somehow landed myself in the centre of an extraordinary old man 's fantasies . |
| 7 | It brought back to me the reality of the life I had so abruptly left behind : I had somehow assumed it would fade out of existence when I wanted , fade back in when convenient , unchanged . |
| 8 | I had somehow supposed her to sit in that room for ever , real only when Hugo or I were with her . |
| 9 | I could tell by her voice that she had just said something which she believed , and I was surprised , because I had somehow thought her too clever really to believe anything . |
| 10 | ‘ They felt that in the appreciation I had somehow caught what she was about , this thing about how she loved to be in Cornwall and loved to wear her scruffy clothes and wellington boots . |
| 11 | Apparently , because my employment had officially been terminated by me , I had arguably made myself voluntarily unemployed and was therefore entitled to benefit money only after a certain period . |
| 12 | ‘ Much as I admired Bob Payton and his unequivocal standards , I had also felt I was in too important a position . |
| 13 | I had also made myself a promise that ( a ) I would use up some of the many cones in the cupboard and ( b ) I would try out more of the built-in patterns in the 950i machine . |
| 14 | She did n't say what it was or who published it or anything , but it made me you know think you know , so I wrote to her care of Writers something and erm asked her what 's the name of it I would like to read it because I had also written something about the er American Indians and erm er who 's the publisher or what 's it called , I 'd like to read it . |
| 15 | I had also angered him , though his anger seemed directed at himself . |
| 16 | Before she reached my name I had chosen the wife for Old Red ; when Gwenellen Jones answered I had also chosen my bridesmaid 's dress , asked Matron for an extra holiday , coaxed our fare money out of my father , and was flying out to Singapore with Dickie . |
| 17 | I had already made my debut in Scrutiny , however , and he may have felt that this made it appropriate that I should have something equivalent in The Criterion . |
| 18 | In fact , since I had already made my holiday plans , I went ahead and paid my second visit to the railway , together with my wife and eldest daughter . |
| 19 | I had already observed it in hotel saunas and swimming-pools in Germany , where men and women sat and swam together in the nude and thought nothing of it . |
| 20 | This was untrue , but I had already lent him the money . ’ |
| 21 | I had already recognised him , but fifteen years or so , boy to man , is a big change , and I doubt if he got it . |
| 22 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 23 | I knew that three deaths in my immediate vicinity within four years had to look suspicious , and I had already planned my reaction carefully . |
| 24 | I had already achieved something ; I had already proved to myself that I was capable of independent achievement . |
| 25 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 26 | He came racing towards me just as I got out , I had already shed my parachute in the aircraft to get out a little more schnell before he accosted me , I got the most bitter rollicking for leaving the aircraft outside his engineering hangar area . |
| 27 | I had already discussed it with a fair proportion of them as individuals in the previous weeks . |
| 28 | ‘ I had already established my own gallery in an old ironmongers in Porthmadog , after realising that there was a market for prints of original paintings . |
| 29 | I had already negotiated my free transfer as part of the deal when I came from Celtic . ’ |
| 30 | It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it . |