Example sentences of "[that] i had [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 6 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |