Example sentences of "had [vb pp] i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As we approached the loch , in order to impress Blair with my vast knowledge , I repeated Stan 's tale about Pennel Point , being careful not to mention who had given me such valuable information . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet strangely my time at Bristol had given me some relevant training . |
| 7 | Robyn , one of the other stage managers , had given me some Hebrew books . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The surging crowd had carried me some rows back from the front . |
| 10 | The official was a friend of mine , and had done me some good turns over the previous few months ; most of which time I had spent in this same hotel . |
| 11 | After assuring me the her comm was entirely secure — no one tampers with Frejjis machinery — she had told me that odd things were happening on Uulaa . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 14 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 15 | I remembered when my own wife , Maria , had told me this , and how this house had been full of the laughter of little voices , and the noise of running feet . |
| 16 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 17 | His name was Reldresal , and he had helped me many times since I had arrived in Lilliput . |
| 18 | Just as I had fired up the cooker the cat rod that had caused me all the grief earlier was off again . |
| 19 | They had caused me many heartaches and disillusions , and I was determined that it should never happen again . |
| 20 | ‘ If you had asked me that question yesterday , or even this morning , I might have found it difficult to answer , ’ said Melissa slowly . |
| 21 | The robe had tripped me each time I had stooped low enough to exert sufficient force , so I had taken it off . |
| 22 | I made one stipulation only to the Foreign Secretary , Sir Alec Douglas-Home , which was that my driver should not be the same amiable young man who had led me such a dance around Johannesburg . |
| 23 | Back in the world , the marshal — Juliet — had struck me that way . |
| 24 | The words ‘ The child is father to the man ’ , had haunted me all the morning . |