Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had assumed up to this point that you really wished to speak not to me but to my husband ( who is of course E J Maitland , a philosopher whose reputation is rather more likely than mine to attract telephone calls from the great officers of state ) and that I was being summoned to the phone merely because he was not there . |
| 2 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 3 | He could see more of mine , because I had swung round during that last exchange . |
| 4 | But anyway we had this one projector which I had winkled out of this friend of mine , and we stuck it up on a couple of stools and hung some sheets up behind the corner of the room which served as a stage , and with some incense burning in the corner an atmosphere was created . |
| 5 | It was not the person I had read about in all the papers and magazines . ’ |
| 6 | I had recruited abroad in those areas . |
| 7 | ( I thought I had got out of this by saying it was a firm 's car park so it would be the same four drivers . ) |
| 8 | ‘ If I had shown up at any exchange with that case , ’ said Quinn , ‘ they 'd have spotted it and killed the boy . ’ |
| 9 | Compasses capable of drawing arcs of this size are rare , so I used a thin strip of 7x1mm mahogany I had left over from some modelling , it 's available at most model shops and is excellent stuff , if a trifle expensive . |
| 10 | This was a need that Pat Bateson , Gabriel Horn and I had hammered out in many long discussions about our imprinting experiments , and which we had tried to meet in practice in the design of the controls we had used in the early 1970s . |
| 11 | I had put in about two hours detecting time by now and these were the only two non-ferrous items I had found apart from some scrap lead . |
| 12 | After this , I still found the problems of pragmatics a challenge , requiring the revision of the whole approach to language ( and particularly meaning ) which I had taken up to that time . |