Example sentences of "i had [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had rather hoped that the legendary West Highland dilatoriness would have prevented anything much happening for years , but instead the scheme is going ahead fast . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Erm I had rather thought that that you had been given erm sufficient information already to perhaps make a straightforward simple strategic choice between between districts . |
| 4 | An interest in music that I had rather forgotten about until the thought of Millie in the lane reminded me . |
| 5 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 6 | Before visiting the remote north , I had rather expected the folk there to be rough , uncouth , possibly even hostile . |
| 7 | ‘ I had rather expected before I went that I might not be taken seriously as a woman . |
| 8 | I felt as if I had singlehandedly wrecked San Francisco . |
| 9 | How I had gloriously saved his son and heir . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought about the chips that Mrs Phipps had spoken of and remembered that I had nearly choked on them once . |
| 12 | For what good it was going to do me , I was fairly sure that these two were on the other end of the lead poisoning Connors and I had nearly contracted . |
| 13 | I had nearly drowned , just lost the largest trout I was ever likely to see , and she asks if I am having fun ? |
| 14 | I had nearly dropped off to sleep when he said : " Am I too heavy ? " |
| 15 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 16 | I had nearly got to the front door when Father appeared at the top of the stairs . |
| 17 | I had nearly got myself killed back there : what on earth did I think I was playing at ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In fact , the way I had instinctively started to limp turned out to be the best : a short step on the left heel with the leg stiff and a long springing step on the right . |
| 20 | The modem world from which I had briefly stepped aside seemed to come crowding in again . |
| 21 | By the first Friday , I had either worked , or been on-call for thirty hours , and I was beginning to wonder why anyone wanted to become a doctor , for I was extremely tired , and nothing of any real interest had yet happened . |
| 22 | I had soon knitted all sorts of things for her , such as hats , teapot cosies and iron holders . |
| 23 | I got a shock : I had little dreamt that English children could be so completely ignorant of the rules of hygiene , and that they would regard the floors and carpets as suitable places upon which to relieve themselves . |
| 24 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 25 | In all the previous months , I had rarely seen land , never wanted to . |
| 26 | I thought of cold nights in Edinburgh and went everywhere with a relaxation I had rarely felt in Peru . |
| 27 | I had rarely had reason to enter my father 's room prior to this occasion and I was newly struck by the smallness and starkness of it . |
| 28 | I had instantly buried the intense feelings hoping that with time they would decompose or reform and grow into normal healthy heterosexual longings . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |