Example sentences of "[conj] i had [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 2 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 3 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 4 | On the wall of that room was a patch where the barometer had hung — so familiar a face that I had hardly realized it was there . |
| 5 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 6 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 7 | Then Duncan Paterson , the selection convenor , came on to say that I had better get myself over to Murrayfield as soon as I could ! |
| 8 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 9 | No , I think that I had better take one from the Scottish National party . |
| 10 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 11 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 12 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 13 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 14 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 15 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 16 | ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’ |
| 17 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |
| 18 | It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it . |
| 19 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 20 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 21 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 22 | I had banged my head badly and it was bleeding but my father was more angry than I had ever seen him . |
| 23 | The air of the moors , the freedom of home , and the beginning of independence made Diana and Mary happier than I had ever seen them . |
| 24 | I still had five , and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen . |
| 25 | I knew that three deaths in my immediate vicinity within four years had to look suspicious , and I had already planned my reaction carefully . |
| 26 | It was one of those trivial things and I had entirely forgotten it when Mrs Rumney phoned again . |
| 27 | and I had never felt it anywhere else and I 've never felt it since ! |
| 28 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 29 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 30 | She seldom sounded Yorkshire and I had never known her to make a joke . |