Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 2 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 3 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 4 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 5 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 6 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 7 | I had lost it in the sea when swimming away from the ship . |
| 8 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 9 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 10 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 11 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 12 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 13 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
| 14 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 15 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 16 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 17 | Well I , I had done it at the interval . |
| 18 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 19 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 20 | No other man had so eloquently and constantly spoken of the way I had haunted him from the first moment he cast eyes on me . |
| 21 | I had included myself in the North Oxford set as of right , a right seemingly confirmed by the way Alison had approached me and the ease with which we had conversed . |
| 22 | He woke me at two this morning and gave me his best horse and bid me not to stop till I had overtaken you on the way . |
| 23 | I looked up , startled to find how I had forgotten everything but the antics of these two monstrous beings . |
| 24 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 25 | Anyway I was back in the office when I suddenly felt hot and faint … you see I had left him on the island , with three lanes still to cross . |
| 26 | If I had left it on the night flying path I would have had a serious rocket which I would not have forgotten as easily as I had forgotten the first one — from the wing commander flying . |
| 27 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |
| 28 | I had learned something about the protest vote . |
| 29 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
| 30 | As a result I knew that I had recovered everything within the detecting capabilities of my old machine and did not expect that there would be anything left to be found . |