Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 2 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 3 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 4 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 5 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |
| 6 | ‘ But I would always have regretted it if I had turned down the chance to find out whether I could make it at this level . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 8 | I had wrung out the Spidersuit and Y-fronts and hung them over a Bible suck thinking how He would just have to lump a bare arse on His books for one night . |
| 9 | I wish I had summoned up the nerve to smile back . |
| 10 | And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and |
| 11 | I had lost even the will to be a coward . |
| 12 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 13 | I had separated out a whole slot for an over-60s magazine , Years Ahead . |
| 14 | ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’ |
| 15 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 16 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 17 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 18 | ‘ He was livid , as though I had stirred up the printers against him and come to say ‘ I told you so ’ once they 'd walked out . ’ |
| 19 | I had done all the cooking and was waiting for my husband to come home . |
| 20 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 21 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 22 | I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it . |
| 23 | After I had read out the concentrated edition to my two guests , Moltke remarked : ‘ Now it has a different ring ; it sounded before like a parley ; now it is like a flourish in answer to a challenge . ’ |
| 24 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 25 | In My Early Life he says I had picked up a wide vocabulary and a liking for the feel of words fitting and falling into their places like pennies in the slot . |
| 26 | When I had left your house , I had picked up a small bag . |
| 27 | I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am . |
| 28 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 29 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 30 | However , as I replaced the cap , to my utter amazement , I noticed it was labelled ‘ Geranium ’ — I had picked up the wrong bottle . |