Example sentences of "had [vb pp] i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have described , she had consulted me many years back over a libel matter which I had discouraged her — unsuccessfully — from pursuing , with calamitous financial results ; but I was able to give her a little assistance in another matter which to some small extent repaired the damage arising from the first disaster . |
| 2 | Certainly his terse telephone technique had annoyed me last night , but not enough to make me want to spit at the sight of him . |
| 3 | One who had given me invaluable help in tracking down German sources and participants was a sixty-year-old cultural attaché at the German Embassy by the name of Herbert Sulzbach . |
| 4 | On the day the telegram arrived from Southern Ferries , a close friend who had given me much encouragement now began to question my continuing any further . |
| 5 | But when we arrived home , we found the stranger had given me two pound notes as well as the coin . |
| 6 | The doctors had given me strict orders to keep warm while I was recuperating and there was no heating at all in the house , ’ said Mrs Easby . |
| 7 | She had given me this book , Period , and she says that how you feel about your first period affects you all your life , it affects your self-image , so it 's very important . |
| 8 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 9 | In fact , Mum had reprimanded me many times for being Sam 's lap-dog , saying that I was too much under my brother 's rotten influence . |
| 10 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 11 | I said , well , I said , I 'm , I 'm someone had seen me last week . |
| 12 | I was an ordinary member of the Council for that , I had done me two years Chairmanship , and here again , I was naughty really , considered naughty . |
| 13 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 14 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 15 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 16 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 17 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 18 | His name was Reldresal , and he had helped me many times since I had arrived in Lilliput . |
| 19 | The painful contractions started before I reached the ward and by the time the ward nurse had brought me 2 paracetamol , I needed to go back to the delivery suite ! |
| 20 | They had caused me many heartaches and disillusions , and I was determined that it should never happen again . |
| 21 | ‘ If you had asked me that question yesterday , or even this morning , I might have found it difficult to answer , ’ said Melissa slowly . |
| 22 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 23 | Back in the world , the marshal — Juliet — had struck me that way . |
| 24 | It had taken me fifteen minutes . |
| 25 | I remembered them from when Alice — the wraith-like girl in the rep — had showed me similar ones . |
| 26 | I wrote back to all those who had sent me hand-written letters . |