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

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1 One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose .
2 One year I had worked nearly a month flat out , every day without a waking hour to myself .
3 I had come home a day early .
4 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 ?
5 I had had quite a grounding in this at the City Temple .
6 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 .
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