Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [conj] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt helpless and despairing and suddenly so ill that I had to clutch at the door to stop myself falling . |
| 2 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 3 | I was not perhaps as gutless as I had assumed . |
| 4 | I made my way back to Chelsea only too aware that I had no intention of buying a shop in the terrace . |
| 5 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 6 | Three young men with loop and stud earrings in one ear ( the lad on the Caledonian Canal fishing boat was not as individual as I had thought ) had three beefburgers and a pie each and then a chocolate KitKat with their tea . |
| 7 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 8 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 9 | The ceremony was thus quite depressing when I had to sit and listen to a boring , unknown , dreary , old codger who was ‘ GIVEN ’ an honorary degree — which course did he attend ? |
| 10 | Brought down to earth with a bang , I sheepishly confessed , not yet aware that I had found my spiritual home . |
| 11 | I was not very worried as I had been told that the school was very good . |
| 12 | That was in Frankfurt when a meeting over which I had no control went on just too long and I had no chance of making my flight . |
| 13 | I am still rather surprised that I had the good sense for once in my life to follow my hunch and come and see you . |
| 14 | They were both so pleased that I had come , by accident , to make their day perfect . |
| 15 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 16 | They were both very anxious and I had no choice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 20 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm really very sorry that I had to leave you with my mother . |
| 22 | Sister was even more angry than I had anticipated . |
| 23 | Was it possible that people were even more complicated than I had imagined , and had Mrs Monro once been young and funny ? |
| 24 | I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally . |
| 25 | ‘ I am glad , at any rate , that you do not find your position here as irksome as I had supposed . ’ |
| 26 | I still was n't quite sure if I had got it quite right . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 29 | I did n't look at Bob ; did n't want to see his disapproval , all too wretchedly aware that I had n't done very well . |