Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 2 | It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed … |
| 3 | These Normandy mosquitoes were the largest and most persistent that I had ever encountered . |
| 4 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I could only be glad that I had never spoken of my plan to Joe , when he was looking after me . |
| 7 | While I did not lose interest in this problem it became clear , after observing a series of routine cases , that medical evidence was often far less important than I had previously imagined . |
| 8 | Actually the truth , beautiful in its simplicity , is far kinder to everybody concerned than I had ever hoped . |
| 9 | I had banged my head badly and it was bleeding but my father was more angry than I had ever seen him . |
| 10 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 11 | Friends who were not knitters had been amazed that I had never met any of the people that I would be staying with . |
| 12 | I was concentrating too hard to feel elated or amazed that I had actually trained this wild creature to come to me at will . |
| 13 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 14 | I should n't think this boring as I had sometimes done before . |
| 15 | They were a very bright and energetic body of Indians ; indeed the most intelligent that I had ever seen . |
| 16 | I remember thinking that the whole process of being shot down and being killed seemed very much simpler and less horrible than I had always imagined . |
| 17 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |