Example sentences of "i had [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BELVILLE : I had rather so than perfecting my Pamela in it . |
| 2 | I was so unhappy but I had nowhere else to go so I stayed until the baby was born . |
| 3 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 4 | I had nowhere else to go and now I was being carried along — that ship bound for wrecking . |
| 5 | Well you see I had here well I , I , this is , this is a fell and this is here . |
| 6 | Was he , as I originally suspected in Salamanca , an FBI agent or working for the CIA ? ft was a mystery I had no longer any wish to clear up . |
| 7 | Even if I had no longer been able to see the real images in my mind I could see their representations as clearly as if they hung before me , and the two were beginning to run together . |
| 8 | I had also just complimented her on her dress . |
| 9 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 10 | I hoped the exploration would go well and that the cancer would be confined to the kidney I had already rather sadly signed away . |
| 11 | I had just over forty pounds in the bank and not much prospect of raising another bean , but the silly man 's attitude had made me so angry . |
| 12 | I had just about reached the stairs , when suddenly a white door to my right burst open and a group of students tumbled out , shrieking with laughter . |
| 13 | I thought I had just about run the gamut of sexual experiences , but nothing like this had ever happened to me before . |
| 14 | I had just about run myself dry of duff funnies regarding the trusty Smith and Whatsaname . |
| 15 | I had just about enough , and added one or two others , and we decided to go ahead with it . ’ |
| 16 | I had just as much percentage in attracting that plane if it had been humanly possible . |
| 17 | Andrew Ridgley and I had both just come from school about nine months before we took off with WHAM ! |
| 18 | I had never consciously associated with what is called complementary medicine , and as the reader will have discovered , I have had little to do with any form of medicine . |
| 19 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 20 | I had never previously been to a race where this had happened but the race jury undoubtedly made the right decision . |
| 21 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 22 | In fact I had never even imagined life without fat so it was something of a challenge to create a very low fat diet for myself , first of all , and then for my slimmers — a diet which at the same time as being very low in fat included all the necessary nutrients . |
| 23 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 24 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 25 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 26 | Quite soon after the note , I began to suspect — what I had never even thought about , for some naive reason — that I might be pregnant . |
| 27 | They pointed me towards writers I had never even heard of , let alone read . |
| 28 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I had never even been on a hat-trick before , ’ said Henderson . |
| 30 | 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 . |