Example sentences of "i had [verb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had misunderstood the name of the film , and not dared ask too many questions . |
| 2 | I had made the mistake of volunteering to sleep on the couch in the living room on the nights that Janice stayed at our flat ; this offer was made with what I thought was obvious sarcasm one evening while Gav and Norris were attempting to develop a technique for cooking poppadoms in the microwave . |
| 3 | I had made the journey from Aix a dozen years earlier . |
| 4 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |
| 5 | I had imagined the cleaning to be a routine trundle and the retouching a source of joy , but apparently it 's vice versa and tête-bêche . |
| 6 | This was not how I had imagined the conquering of my childhood dream peak , and I was muttering and tutting under my breath as I clambered up towards them . |
| 7 | I had broken the cycle of eight thousand lifetimes and defiled the banal brahmin inside me , polluted him by contact with the testable , the material proofs of induction . |
| 8 | And er I think after and when I became sixteen that er had to start paying your your m paying the union I had to join the union as a junior member you know . |
| 9 | The way I see it — if I had saved the world from a lot of boring belly dancers I ought to be congratulated . |
| 10 | Me , I had reached the bottom of the bottle and figured I had lost enough for one weekend . |
| 11 | At around the age of forty-six the attacks became more intense and , by the time I had reached the age of forty-eight they were a fortnightly affair and almost unbearable . |
| 12 | I had reached the point of distinguishing between the use of words like ‘ hot ’ and ‘ cold ’ to say how we feel , and their use to describe things like fire and snow . |
| 13 | I could n't believe I had done it ; I had reached the point in a trainee pilot 's training when he feels that he can now really get some flying under his belt and his flying really starts . |
| 14 | Now I had reached the remains of one of those chalk banks built by Victorian engineers . |
| 15 | I looked at him , feeling I had reached the end of the road . |
| 16 | I had visited the apartment at least a dozen times , but I still found the fact of a lift opening directly into a living room incredibly impressive ; a proof of wealth as convincing as the possession of gold taps or of mink rugs or of the girl who waited to greet me just beyond the lift doors . |
| 17 | I had tested the waters with the evening of mini-talks in our second season . |
| 18 | It appears from Jean Piaget 's child psychology that perception has been inseparable from simulation right from the start , and that instead of learning to project my inwardness on to other persons I had to unlearn the habit of projecting it on to the rising sun or a bouncing ball . |
| 19 | By the time I had replaced the telephone in its cradle I had realized in a sudden , terrifying swoop of misery that I was in genuine danger . |
| 20 | Cos I had studied the chart to k know something about er and I I presume I was one of the few people in New York , who knew the damn thing was on 's Island you see . |
| 21 | My Arabic was rusty but I had studied the language in the 1970s and knew the Gulf reasonably well . |
| 22 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 23 | I had lost the excitement of the first Ramble to the Trossachs which had all been new territory . |
| 24 | I had lost the sense of being part of another . |
| 25 | Reg used every opportunity to take swipes at me and constantly implied that I had lost the confidence of everybody involved with the club . |
| 26 | ‘ I decided that I had to put the headmaster in a position to answer and it was this problem that worried me most — more than the outrageous charges against myself and the effect on my family . |
| 27 | Apart from the almost unspeakably dense prose , I had written the piece in three different colours of pen ( NME is professional , not a fanzine ; you have to type everything ) and signed the piece ‘ Dele Heroin ’ which was too close in pronunciation to ‘ Deal Heroin ’ for comfort . |
| 28 | I scrambled back down after that and retrieved the ball-bearing I had hit the sign with the day before . |
| 29 | I told him about Frankland , and how I had seen the boy with the food . |
| 30 | I had seen the women of this tribe only once before . |