Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered that I had promised to see her about some poems she had written and had nervously asked me to read . |
| 2 | I had only pretended I did n't know , preferring to see things as I would like them to be , rather than as they were , imprisoning myself in a ramshackle edifice of lies because I could n't bear to knock it down and start again , shivering and alone in a great expanse of sand . |
| 3 | If you had not confessed I think I would have beaten it out of you . ’ |
| 4 | He had not expected me to ask about his 1936 visit to Nazi Germany . |
| 5 | Eduardo took me out to a nearby restaurant on the Tuesday evening , saying he was too lazy to cook and that he does not often nowadays have any or many chances to take women out ( ! ) , so in return on the Wednesday I got food to make up the rest of a meal using two wild ducks had generously given me to roast , and we had the second one cold on the Thursday after my second meeting . |
| 6 | Are you leaving me already ! ’ he said , seeming surprised , although he had just told me to go , ‘ and so coldly ? ’ |
| 7 | His face had lost its boyish roundness , and there was the debated moustache — I had always said I did n't fancy him with one — quite splendid , and at once my prejudice vanished . |
| 8 | Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little , restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house , but of course , over time , one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another , and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd always hung around with boys , never really known any men — certainly no man had ever made me feel and think the dreadful things I felt and thought whenever I saw you ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You had deliberately led me to believe that you 'd picked up a stranger in Bruges , and naturally I had assumed him to be a Belgian . ’ |
| 11 | You were quite right about Ken Noakes — my experience with him had temporarily made me lose faith in men , and in myself . |
| 12 | I forgave him for the many occasions on which he had unthinkingly made me feel mentally subnormal . |
| 13 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 14 | And Dr Carrington had particularly asked me to disconnect him from the ventilator . |
| 15 | If you had n't made me hate you , it might have gone on for months . ’ |
| 16 | Oh bless their hearts , they 'd always helped , but they had n't realised I think . |
| 17 | So the the their thoughts were away in the past and they had n't moved I thought and I learned later that my thoughts were correct . |
| 18 | Leafing through them , I could n't see any obvious lies ; he had n't taught me to say anything obscene instead of ‘ Excuse me ’ or ‘ Can you direct me to the railway station , please ? ’ , though I 'd have thought the temptation would have been all but irresistible . |
| 19 | I wish Mr Jackson had n't seen me crying — he 'll think I 'm a real baby . |
| 20 | ‘ I did ask him why he had n't let me know on his way there that he would be coming later . |
| 21 | I would n't have proposed if you had n't allowed me to hope . ’ |
| 22 | Joseph was shocked at the sight of his master , and would have gone to the police , if Heathcliff had n't forced me to describe what happened . |
| 23 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 24 | Those friends on the police force who would doubtless fail to remember me these nights had even let me have carbons of a few rap sheets . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was something to do with our difference of opinion on the tee , I do n't know — but all through this championship Lee had never asked me to read a putt for him . |