Example sentences of "[indef pn] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , everyone I had met today had this wide-eyed look ; the wounded , the jeep drivers , and the Commandos occupying the weapon pits . |
| 2 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
| 3 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |
| 4 | ‘ They found out nothing I had n't told them . |
| 5 | There was nothing I had to tell him . |
| 6 | But nothing I had looked right on me . |
| 7 | About two months after I had returned home , a letter came from Angela Woodin at Bletchley ; she was someone I had wanted to see but had not had the opportunity : |
| 8 | Later I had the honour and privilege of meeting Odette Churchill , the heroine of the French Resistance , someone I had admired for years , ever since reading about her exploits when she received her medal after the war . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I suppose what I mean is that Richard is someone I would never have introduced to my parents — and he is someone I had quite a … sexual relationship with . |
| 10 | Nobody I had spoken to in the train , or on the ferry , had ever visited Moila , which must support , so I was told by one slow-spoken Highlander , no more than thirty folk in all . |
| 11 | The question I return to , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , is always the same : I put everything into this , everything I had by way of mind and body and heart , and this is what I have produced . |
| 12 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 13 | Although I left the car park wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt with my warmer clothes packed away in the rucksack , the walk was now a serious business and I was wearing everything I had with me . |
| 14 | If the location of Alison 's house was a surprise , the interior was everything I had expected . |
| 15 | Interested in everything I had to say . |
| 16 | Wigan coach John Monie admitted : ‘ Everything I had heard about Workington proved to be true . |
| 17 | It was everything I had ever wanted . ’ |
| 18 | I took all my money out of the banks , sold everything I had and packed up . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 20 | Everything I had drawn was there , but nothing more . |
| 21 | They recalled almost in totality everything I had written , the people I had interviewed , the story of the vast corruption in New York 's building trades and how it affected the construction of their monumental World Financial Centre on the Hudson . |
| 22 | I was thinking , in contravention of everything I had been taught , that this casual immorality would be more wholesome than the hidden hatreds of marital strife . |
| 23 | This is what a girl in Borstal meant when she said to me , ‘ I gave him everything I had but it was n't enough ’ . |
| 24 | I left almost everything I had " . |
| 25 | ‘ It was then that she showed just how avaricious she was — demanding a half-share of everything I had before she would move out . |
| 26 | You took my youth , my innocence — everything I had ! — and then you flung me aside when you knew I could give you nothing … and you left me nothing ! ’ |
| 27 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 28 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 29 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 30 | It was something I had never admitted to myself . |