Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
| 2 | On my shirt Harvey had arranged that I wore the word ‘ observer ’ , which meant I was able to remember a prior appointment when the going got rough . |
| 3 | He had heard that I knew Robert W. Service and felt it would be a ‘ good idea ’ if they could get Service to fly up and formally open the new building . |
| 4 | Luckily , the rain had stopped and I spent a few minutes baling out , thinking once again that I must do something about drainage , but never seem to get round to it as the weather clears up and everything dries out very quickly . |
| 5 | I asked , as the rain had stopped and I wished to see more of Killala Bay . |
| 6 | That was one night after we had stopped and I stayed on and me and the assistant engineer just hooked that up together . |
| 7 | The rain had stopped when I emerged from the subway exit at Fernhill . |
| 8 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 9 | My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor . |
| 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 | There 's one in the window I 'm just gon na have a look , cos I never had noticed when I came in this morning |
| 12 | I was as surprised as he was at what time had revealed but I did not join in when his boyish enthusiasm took hold . |
| 13 | I could n't remember the make of car I drove , how my girlfriend looked naked , what I had done before I got my PI licence , what shape my bathroom was , my parents ' names . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 15 | If you had done as I said , and given the keys to the princess , you would now be dressed in silk , sitting at her left hand . |
| 16 | ‘ It did n't really sink in what I had done until I returned to school on the Monday morning and saw all the television cameras waiting for me at the gates , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 17 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 18 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 19 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 20 | Something the innkeeper had said when I made apologies for possessing no luggage had begun to tip my mood . |
| 21 | I almost ignored his last words because I was still thinking about Billingsley 's dishonesty , but then I realised just what McIllvanney had said and I frowned . |
| 22 | The illness did , however , convince me to accept another of the points Mrs Hill had made and I decided to apply for social security money . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 25 | It was actually obvious that a burglary had occurred but I refused to take it in . |
| 26 | Nathan had watched while I went under the rock , had been surprised when I vigorously stood up and had stood transfixed as I gently pitched forwards off the rock . |
| 27 | Nour had laughed because I had not heard of Herodotus . |
| 28 | Years later she told me that she had regretted that I did not include some of his mother 's receipts in my life of Cavafy . |
| 29 | Yet I felt at last I had straightened out the time that had buckled when I lost all my writing . |
| 30 | During this period of uncertainty , Jean-Claude was as anxious as I. He never missed the opportunity to tell me how different his life had become since I moved in with him : he was happy now , he could work . |