Example sentences of "i [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 2 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 3 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 4 | I 'd done it for four years on the trot . |
| 5 | A few months after I left I met someone else and we had a wonderful relationship for a few months , but then guilt reared its ugly head and Marie persuaded me to go back because I 'd left her with two children . |
| 6 | As I put on a plaster in here an hour ago , I wondered if I 'd left it on that shelf above the sink . |
| 7 | Well yeah but , cos I mean I 'd left it on all night before . |
| 8 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
| 9 | None of the nurses spoke to me , nothing , till 2 o'clock that afternoon , which I 'd had her at 7.30 in the morning … |
| 10 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 11 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 12 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 13 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 14 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 15 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 16 | But I was sure I had seen it after that , slinking , a shadow cat in the tree shadows , black as Egypt 's night . |
| 17 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 18 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 19 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 20 | ‘ I had expected you before this , Mr Beckenham , ’ said the lawyer with a twinkle , setting a chair for his client to sit down in the drawing-room of the small house that served also for his office . |
| 21 | I had expected it at some point . |
| 22 | Which was good for me ; if I had directed it in 1979 it would n't have had a chance . ’ |
| 23 | I wondered if I had offended him in some way . |
| 24 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 25 | ( I learned later that she had thought I had put her into some kind of charitable institution — a sort of workhouse . |