Example sentences of "[conj] i had not [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 2 | I told her what she expected to hear — that I had not done anything much . |
| 3 | When I was pregnant , and we did not have this constantly changing situation of togetherness and separation , my husband complained that I had not noticed him kissing me goodbye in the morning — I was starting to take him for granted after only a few months without going to the mikva ! |
| 4 | Suddenly I realised that I had not heard it before but read it before — word for word in the article that the Secretary of State for Education and Science wrote last Friday in The Times Educational Supplement . |
| 5 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 6 | It occurred to me that I should perhaps wait for my daughter Sophie outside her school , to make sure she understood that I had not abandoned her , had merely left Lou for a man who loved me and would make me happy ; that things would presently calm down , and as soon as Hugo and I had sorted things out a little and established our new home she could join us . |
| 7 | I was confused and still worried that there might be horses and that I had not changed my bloomers which were wet from where I had fallen in the icy fish . |
| 8 | It had just crossed my mind that I had not had my boots off since the evening of the 4th June and it was now 8th June . |
| 9 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 10 | ‘ Indeed , but for my brother 's tears , his reproaches that I had not drawn my sword , I would have dismissed the whole affair as a nightmare . ’ |
| 11 | Three years passed , and I had not lost my ambition to become the headmaster of a grammar school . |
| 12 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 13 | ‘ And I had not seen you ! ’ |
| 14 | My educational colleagues are a hard-bitten lot and I had not expected them to come out as complete ‘ quality ’ converts . |
| 15 | During all the time I had played golf I had not gone into any competitions and I had not got my handicap . |
| 16 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 17 | ‘ If I had not loved him , I should have left him , ’ Laura said . |
| 18 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 19 | I would be failing in my duty to the school if I had not read it . ’ |
| 20 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 21 | It may have been my stupidity , but I had not realised it . |
| 22 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 23 | He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her , then held both her hands and smiled down at her as I had not seen him smile since I mentioned her name that night in the subway . |