Example sentences of "i had [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made so many enemies . |
| 2 | Although I had kept away from people and villages so far , I knew this was a well inhabited part of the world . |
| 3 | I had kept fairly quiet while I tried to establish myself and gauge the atmosphere of the school . |
| 4 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 5 | By the time I was ten it seemed I had lived backstage to so many of those early film sets . |
| 6 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 7 | I had wanted to return to Scapa for some time , to refresh my memories of that extraordinary and beautiful place and of the strange life I had lived there for nearly three years . |
| 8 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 9 | I took a sharp knife and cut through the body that I had joined together so carefully . |
| 10 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 11 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 12 | I had testified all right . |
| 13 | I had certainly never seen entertainment like this in any of the countries I had visited before . |
| 14 | I had surfaced somewhat ill-equipped from the Piccadilly Line dodging expanding umbrellas , and hoping that my destination was somewhere near at hand . |
| 15 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 16 | By the time the season started I had completed only around 800kms of testing while most of the other top guys had done as much as 6000km . |
| 17 | His answer was very clever : no one could really account for their movements but once again Benjamin and I had drunk deeply from the cup of failure . |
| 18 | One way or another , I had drunk quite a bit this evening , but I did n't need to powder my nose . |
| 19 | I had drunk too much again . |
| 20 | I had drunk too much and woke in the night knowing I was damned . |
| 21 | It was also agreed that the gallery had been overheated and airless and that I had drunk too much . |
| 22 | One set of interviews , with the literary editors of national newspapers , was carried out using half a dozen ‘ topic headings ’ simply to ensure that at each interview I covered the ground I had decided beforehand was important for my purpose . |
| 23 | People envied me my birth and my childhood , but my secret pride was that I had rejected both to make of myself a prosaic and common-sense fellow . |
| 24 | Erm Foxes in the Garden with the R S P C A photos I had rejected yesterday as well , so that was a good day . |
| 25 | Where was the pond I had waded across , where was the path to the car ? |
| 26 | That I had suffered neither Radiotherapy nor Chemotherapy made my fraudulent feeling grow by the minute . |
| 27 | I had beaten so many of my idols that I hope it does n't sound too arrogant to say that I was proud of my performance . |
| 28 | The diary entries for the Easter holidays are even sparser than usual , but when I went back to school I had lost yet another two pounds . |
| 29 | I had lost even the will to be a coward . |
| 30 | Before , I had had Daisy : when I had lost her , I had lost both sister and friend . |