Example sentences of "i had [adv] imagined " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their feelings were like mine and they were n't the stereotypical bulldykes I had previously imagined them to be . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had never imagined the usefulness of teaching him English for this particular trade . |
| 4 | I had n't any idea what he was talking about but I listened attentively to his description of lands I had never imagined , with their dark green forests , snowy slopes and frozen lakes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had always imagined that they would put up and take down tents . |
| 7 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 8 | It was exactly as I had always imagined the Dark Ages to be , and in its terrible way it was apt . |
| 9 | I suppose I had always imagined Yggdrasil as a vast , dispassionate Intelligence , juggling its million programs and thinking deep thoughts to itself . |
| 10 | ‘ I was disappointed when David left surgery ; I had always imagined he would follow in his father 's footsteps — but , as we know , circumstances decreed otherwise . ’ |
| 11 | I had once imagined that I too might one day be involved in that large , confusing family with its extended degrees of affinity . |
| 12 | I had fondly imagined that sitting astride one of these slow , sure-footed and allegedly stubborn beasts would be a doddle — which it was when actually in the saddle . |
| 13 | I had naively imagined that marriage would magically obliterate the origins of the wealth we shared , melting Dennis 's laboriously acquired treasures down into a common heap of anonymous gold . |
| 14 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 15 | She described her working experience as ‘ worse than anything I had ever imagined ’ . |