Example sentences of "[Wh det] i had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modem world from which I had briefly stepped aside seemed to come crowding in again . |
| 2 | It was not as though other people were speaking a foreign language , but rather as though they were using the English language as the basis of a code to which I had somehow lost the key . |
| 3 | Indeed , the next months were taxing in a different way , culminating in my appointment to a post in Bahrein for which I had little enough relish . |
| 4 | The display windows of the shops had also been taken over and in some of them were displayed uniforms such as that of the Russian Legion which I had just seen . |
| 5 | On a taxi ride across the Clyde Valley — Hamilton , Motherwell , Wishaw going with my father to the psychiatric hospital where my mother had just been admitted , I was overwhelmed by the past , not just the place names that had filled my childhood when I 'd lived in this part of Scotland over twenty years before , but another past to which I had even less access : a prelude to my own . |
| 6 | You could buy salmon , which I suspect could have come from the King 's Reach skirting Balmoral ) for 2/6d a pound ; and there was no dearth of whisky for which I had yet to acquire a taste . |
| 7 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 8 | The Triple Alliance , which I first tried to arrange after the Franco-Prussian War , and about which I had already approached Austria and Russia in 1870 , was an alliance of three Emperors , with the further idea of including the King of Italy . |
| 9 | So the remark was a climax to a series of similar remarks which I had previously received with only mild resentment or embarrassment . |
| 10 | Further to our telephone conversation last week , I am writing to inform you of the changes of circumstances concerning the above policy , which I had completely forgotten to do , and for which I apologize . |
| 11 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 12 | When I became fully aware of this , I gave all of my fashionable new clothes to ‘ Oxfam ’ and fished out my old blue jeans and ‘ sloppy joe ’ jumper which I had nearly thrown out only a few weeks before . |
| 13 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 14 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 15 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 16 | This was an appointment which I had repeatedly put off but which at last I was being forced to keep . |
| 17 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 18 | My tapestries and books were turning into pitch-thick smoke , and the heat , from which I had hitherto been protected , it seems , by the initial surge of adrenalin through my body , now made it plain that this was the last window of opportunity for effecting a dignified , if empty-handed , exit . |
| 19 | I wanted to run out of the room , back to South London , where I belonged , out of which I had wrongly and arrogantly stepped . |
| 20 | I rushed off to have a shave and a wash , which I had hardly finished doing before we were ordered downstairs for breakfast in the darkness . |
| 21 | J. had been with the now famous 617 Squadron for a time , and in talking about this he was able to furnish me with details of an incident which I had vaguely heard of while I was at Bourn . |
| 22 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 23 | So no bug-eyed monsters which I had always thought to be the cheapest form of science fiction . |
| 24 | During this month I led the life for which I had always yearned hunting big game on my own in the wilds of Africa ; but now I realized that this expedition had meant more to me than just the excitement of hunting . |
| 25 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 26 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 27 | A recent ( excellent ) paper by Frank Sulloway in the Galapagos symposium at the Linnean society in December was also in part devoted to demolishing myths which I had never heard of . |
| 28 | I felt that some dreadful punishment had been visited upon me , punishment for a crime which I had never committed . |
| 29 | This caused a needle to bend to an angle at which I had never seen a needle before ! |
| 30 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |