Example sentences of "had [vb pp] i [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
2 | Sapt had hidden me in a room in the old castle , and he and Fritz brought her to me there . |
3 | All the more disappointing therefore to learn later that some Seniors members who had blackballed me for Muirfield had now put in an objection to my joining this club too . |
4 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
5 | That had frightened me at first but now I thought the Star Zoo was wonderful . |
6 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
7 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
8 | finally , when both my parents were away somewhere , I took the opportunity to draw out of the Post Office bank all the very modest amount of money that people had given me on special occasions like my christening . |
9 | And then he said suddenly , ‘ That phone call Ah was waitin' fur — it was from the hotel Iris had given me as her address in Lima . |
10 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
11 | ‘ I did n't go to Oxford or Yale but he would have a good education if he had joined me at Birkenhead Institute . ’ |
12 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
13 | London University had interviewed me for both of the courses for which I had applied : Arabic and Economics , and Swahili and Commercial Law . |
14 | Since I came from Scotland she had expected me to be ‘ large , raw-boned and ‘ dower ’ [ i.e. dour ] ' . |
15 | They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another . |
16 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
17 | After visiting Bruce Hutchison , the next stop would be at the home of Mrs Nellie McClung whose books ‘ Clearing in the West ’ and ‘ The Stream Runs Fast ’ had impressed me as a youth . |
18 | His comment had caught me in mid-swallow and I managed to spray little bits of scone onto the coffee table . |
19 | He made me feel as if he had rescued me from some intellectual gutter , some abyss of boredom . |
20 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
21 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
22 | People , my real friends , had respected me for coping so well after my mother 's death and for putting up with my financial situation at home . |
23 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
24 | Bill Francis had rung me from Marcus half an hour before I got back . |
25 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
26 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
27 | In a vague way , I thought , he had reminded me of Derry Welfram . |
28 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
29 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
30 | Our Minister had reminded me of a sermon by a former St. Andrew 's minister , about ‘ A Garden City , ’ where there would be realisation of the twin idelas : service and society . |