Example sentences of "[conj] i [adv] [vb past] [pron] had " in BNC.
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1 | Advanced role-playing games sounded like more fun to play , although I soon discovered they had far more to do with train-spotting than they did with handcuffs , celery and a latex grope-suit . |
2 | So I have discovered reserves of strength that I never knew I had . ’ |
3 | Of course there was a buzz of conversation for about five minutes , and I then decided I had better resume my briefing . |
4 | Well I saw these skid marks tonight , and I thought well how I did n't realise , until I suddenly realised what had happened that someone |
5 | Maybe you ca n't engineer that sort of thing in advance , but I just wished it had happened more often . |
6 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
7 | ‘ It was all sad paranoia , completely in my own head , ’ he continues , ‘ but I really thought I had to be somebody different . |
8 | She was an attractive woman , but I never thought she had a human feeling in her . |
9 | ‘ She used to share her sweets , but I never thought she had the sense of a hen . ’ |
10 | But I never knew I had it , so how could I wipe it off. ? |
11 | It 's a bit like , I 'll , I 'll , it 's very , you know very , it 's quite curly I thought , because I really thought she had a perm done , when , when she had it . |
12 | ‘ It was a good match and because I always felt I had a chance to break Byron I was not too unhappy when I went 3–0 down in the last set . |
13 | They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been . |
14 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
15 | ‘ I just do n't like being used by rich politicians , ’ Ellen said angrily , though I silently noted she had no objections to taking their money . |