Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 2 | ‘ I had moved to France with the very firm intention of trying to write a novel ; the other books [ including the bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence ] got in the way . |
| 3 | Herbert and I had moved to rooms in a house by the river , in the Temple area . |
| 4 | By the time I had children of my own , I had overcome by fear to a great extent but I was still a little nervous . |
| 5 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 6 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 7 | as if in answer to the prophecy I had written in Amsterdam in the Hotel Brabant after visiting the exhibition of Picasso 's Guernica , I was now in the very presence of love itself , in the form of the hero imagined there and then . |
| 8 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 9 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
| 10 | The serveuses reminded me of those I had seen in paintings by Monet . |
| 11 | I also thought I had fallen in love with a music-teacher . |
| 12 | He asked himself , I wonder what this old warrior 's reaction would be if I told him I had fallen in love with a married woman ? |
| 13 | It was not with my reason that I had fallen in love with him and come to live with him , but it was with my reason that I was going to leave him . |
| 14 | ‘ The first time I met her , while I was working for him , I think she knew that I had fallen in love with him and yet she was kinder to me than anyone I 've ever known . |
| 15 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 16 | It was unfortunate , I thought , that at the same time as I had realised the grandeur of God I had fallen in love with a mortal , and that the two experiences should have proved to be mutually exclusive , leaving me with the sensation that I was being sundered by equal forces . |
| 17 | To make love to you simply because — I had fallen in love with you . ’ |
| 18 | Given that they had the ‘ weather works ’ that day in the shape of sleet , hail , wind and rain , whilst simultaneously a view of quite a lot of snow on Vesuvius , I was glad that I had stayed at home with a good book . |
| 19 | I had stayed in bed on Sunday morning , even though Quigley had nearly kicked the door down and then burst into tears all over my duvet . |
| 20 | It was a picture I had examined with attention through many an hour of boring burble , raucous revivalist song and whining , wheezing harmonium . |
| 21 | Yeah because I had said to father during the day on Sunday , I wonder if any of our children are alive ? |
| 22 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 23 | This was followed by shots of John from some pop videos Barbara had made and then some footage that Nick and I had discovered in Damascus of John 's farewell party in Beirut . |
| 24 | I immediately placed all the money I had collected on deposit in the Bow Building Society at 102 Cheapside for a period of one year at a rate of four per cent . |
| 25 | Of course he was n't always there because frequently there were notes from his mother to say that he had earache or something , but later on I realized , of course , that those notes had been faked , the same as the notes that I had sent to school from my mother several generations before that . |
| 26 | I had met in London in the 1960's . |
| 27 | I had emerged from apathy into active aggression , and my housemistress 's report for the term includes the advice , ‘ Sheila must learn to curb her natural exuberance . ’ |
| 28 | I had gone through auditions before and they were much tougher than that . |
| 29 | Shortly before that , I had gone into business with Mrs Edna Kirby , trading as KB Enterprises ( John Birch ) Ltd. , developing and producing a new type of UVA Sunbed . |
| 30 | I had gone to bed about midnight . |