Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had n't met him before , like many would-be adventurers I 'd read a lot about his life and experiences . |
| 2 | Although I had n't seen her in over thirty years , there was one person in the world who might help me : my sister . |
| 3 | ‘ It was the last day of school and I had intended to phone you later although I had n't decided what to say . ’ |
| 4 | I want … wanted it all or , in the end , I found I wanted nothing , although I 'd originally thought I could be satisfied with something . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party . |
| 6 | ‘ Though of course before that I 'd already done my bit : I was one of Our Lads , I was an Expeditionary , part of the Task Force that recaptured Maggie 's surrendered popularity . ’ |
| 7 | There was a click and she 'd gone , and I could hardly believe that I 'd ever doubted her as a relay post . |
| 8 | Not that I 'd ever tried it , but , that sort of thing , semolina , and all that , |
| 9 | That I 'd actually done it I suppose . |
| 10 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 11 | " I told her , " said Mrs Maugham , handing her daughter a plastic butter dish , " that I 'd never seen it . " |
| 12 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 13 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 14 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 15 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 16 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 17 | I could feel him right outside , but it bothered me that I had n't done anything . |
| 18 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 19 | to you on the phone that I had not seen the job and that I said yes alright knowing I had n't seen the job , also that you knew that I had n't seen it and if I did n't agree with it , then I was gon na change it , and I 've changed it ! |
| 20 | Now it seemed fortunate that I had n't ; just as it seemed , though still obscurely , fortunate that I had n't lost my head in other ways when I wrote to her . |
| 21 | Ven uttered , and to her delight confessed , ‘ Well , there was that occasion when , after being disturbed by thoughts of you all night , I rang you at your hotel the next morning in the hope that I had n't disturbed you . ’ |
| 22 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 23 | I admit I remembered then , but I did n't tell you because it would have sounded daft that I had n't told you before . |
| 24 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 25 | I was tempted to call it a day there and then , pull over and have a kip , but my stomach reminded me that I had n't thrown it a bone since the ploughman 's at lunch-time , and it had been quite an eventful day . |
| 26 | Never mind that I had n't remembered my birthday either . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 29 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 30 | The first thought that came to me was that I had n't got my clean bloomers on . |