Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged .
2 One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose .
3 And I 'm a very keen golfer and I had built up a reputation erm by playing in open tour open tournaments and meeting professionals and
4 And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking .
5 I had lit up a cigarette on leaving aunt 's house , without realising it .
6 I had picked up a bit of surgery from him , of course , so here I am .
7 I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me .
8 One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself .
9 I had worked out a peace formula that I thought might be acceptable , but when I showed it to Wilson he scoffed at it as being altogether too legalistic and proceeded to provide me with a formula of his own .
10 I had come home a day early .
11 Earlier , I had put down a keyboard part to a click track and so Gregg , Matt ( the Bissonette brothers , Dave Lee Roth 's erstwhile rhythm section — Ed ) and myself went and did Cryin ' .
12 I read the rest of the story ; the gist of it was I had idled away a year on full pay and what was the Government going to do about it ?
13 I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple .
14 So the decision was made for me , you see , it was only afterwards that I saw I had taken quite a step — a leap in the dark , in fact .
15 I had wondered how a man in his right mind could want to be with me and decided that no girl in her right mind would want to be with him .
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