Example sentences of "had [vb pp] and i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I asked , as the rain had stopped and I wished to see more of Killala Bay . |
| 3 | That was one night after we had stopped and I stayed on and me and the assistant engineer just hooked that up together . |
| 4 | The drainage dyke was probably half way down the 1000 metres I had expected and I have easily , in the past , landed the aircraft inside 400 metres . |
| 5 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 6 | My attackers had scattered and I assumed that a teacher was approaching along the corridor . |
| 7 | ‘ I wanted to carry on the great work that Nick had done and I wanted to broaden the paper 's scope . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm by this time the mother er in the other room erm had emerged and I helped bring the other children into the er main main room . |
| 11 | We can not sell the property in Kent to Mr Cooper as we had hoped and I fear that unless I go down there myself the business will languish . |
| 12 | My giddiness had gone and I felt happy and relaxed , as if I was being carried along on a slow , peaceful current . |
| 13 | When Eva had gone and I lay for the first time in the same house as Charlie and Eva and my father , I thought about the difference between the interesting people and the nice people . |
| 14 | At first I thought the unlikely had happened and I had a fan out there somewhere . |
| 15 | The gear had held and I hung there for a moment , taking stock . |
| 16 | My fever had returned and I took to my bed . |
| 17 | Anyway his father was there and his father had paid and I said no you know , you 've done that . |
| 18 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 19 | But by the time I 'd got to the summer term the things that had failed had failed and I knew why , and I was n't feeling too inclined to change them particularly at the time because they had n't failed to the point where the class was in chaos . |