Example sentences of "[conj] i had not [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had n't met him before , like many would-be adventurers I 'd read a lot about his life and experiences . |
| 2 | Although I had n't seen her in over thirty years , there was one person in the world who might help me : my sister . |
| 3 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 4 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 5 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 6 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 7 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 8 | I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before . |
| 9 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 10 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 11 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 12 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 13 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 14 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 15 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 16 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 17 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 18 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 19 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 20 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 21 | ‘ And I had not seen you ! ’ |
| 22 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 23 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 24 | I was completely pissed off that I was 16 and I had n't done it yet . |
| 25 | ‘ When the race for places ended a fortnight ago and I had n't made it I was upset . |
| 26 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 27 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 28 | My cassettes had been removed from the rack separating the front seats during a half-hearted attempt at car valeting , and I had n't replaced them . |
| 29 | Over some excellent claret at the judge 's lodgings in St Albans , he said , ‘ What I remember most about the trial — and I had n't expected it — was the character of Eck . |
| 30 | When I came over here , I knew what the LH and the Grand Cherokee were , but they had not been introduced and I had n't driven them . |