Example sentences of "[vb past] i had [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I believed I had come up with something , I probed it for every sort of oversight , tested it through from all angles . |
| 2 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 3 | When I left twenty minutes later I felt I had come off with rather the worst of the bargain but another of my father 's aphorisms came to mind : shnorrers no choosers . |
| 4 | At that point , I hated her with a strength I never knew I had possessed up until then . |
| 5 | There was a point when I wondered if someone was having me on , but few people even knew I had written in . |
| 6 | ( 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 . ) |
| 7 | However , I said I would try so I put on my best uniform , nicely pressed , and as I paraded in front of him I said I had turned up the hem of my skirt and did he think it was too short ? |