Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something enthralling about this scene , the three girls in the circle of insect-laden light , so that I had n't wondered what she was doing and only now did I realise that the girl was a fortune-teller . |
| 2 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 3 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 4 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 5 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 6 | Aha , so if I had n't have n't , goodness knows , aha , so I mean we , I had a chat with Iris obviously , but it just was n't on , with other commitments and different things , it was in the afternoon |
| 7 | I 've heard bottles rattling early in the morning but I , sort of one o'clock , two o'clock but I had n't |
| 8 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 9 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 10 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 11 | The theological justification behind such an approach ( not that I had necessarily thought this out at the time when I was a member of the church ) must surely be that God 's will must be held to be one with what is good , and therefore what Christianity proclaims can not differ from human ethical goods . |
| 12 | Not that I had much , anyway . ’ |
| 13 | Not that I had ever believed in the heart marching ahead alone . |
| 14 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 15 | I probably would have stayed longer if I had n't fallen in love with Isobel . |
| 16 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 17 | It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be , and in its terrible way it was apt . |
| 18 | It was n't so much the ageing process itself that sent my spirits plummeting — although greying hair and wrinkles were n't exactly adding to my self-esteem — as the realisation that time is marching on and I had better not waste a moment of it . |
| 19 | I was very glad to see that side of him again , I can tell you , and gladder still that I had not succeeded yet in eradicating it . |
| 20 | In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before . |
| 21 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 22 | He lifted and transferred my soul from the depths up to the heights , so that I ardently longed for the pleasures of heaven more than I had ever delighted in physical embrace or worldly corruption … |
| 23 | On the day of the Station sports I tried harder than I had ever tried in any of my events , and the results were exactly as predicted by old Doc Whittingham " not in the first three , could make fourth if he really tries hard enough " ( which could be the story of my life ) . |
| 24 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 25 | " I could shake it off if I had n't hurt my neck . " |
| 26 | You 'd have had to work a lot harder if I had n't been around to help with those locks and cook your food , brew endless cups of coffee . |
| 27 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
| 28 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 29 | ‘ It was the last day of school and I had intended to phone you later although I had n't decided what to say . ’ |
| 30 | I wished later that I had n't been so shy . |