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Example sentences of "i had not " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I realized I had not been fair to myself .
2	I realized I had not properly understood my own needs .
3	I could n't believe my ears but she repeated it : I realized I had not properly understood my own needs .
4	Yet it was as though that night , in the moonlight , in the silence , as though even the work , the months of steady labour , had only been an illusion , only the dream of work , the dream of progress , and I had not even begun and never would begin , though at different moments in my life I might have had the illusion that I had begun and even , perhaps , finished .
5	Perhaps I had not wanted to feel ?
6	I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded .
7	I had not expected the twentieth century to show such a steep decline both in numbers and in quality , though I was less surprised to see the cultural importance of the nineteenth century .
8	I also came upon a mysterious animal I had not seen before : much larger than the herring , redder and infinitely more expensive .
9	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 .
10	Several hours later I had not heard anything of the incident , so it seemed likely that the Officer had not reported the matter , or Lovat had just shrugged it off .
11	I had not , I have not to this day , the remotest notion of what they were all doing .
12	I had not seen them for over two years .
13	I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa .
14	We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office .
15	I had not seen that it would would have that special resonance . ’
16	I had not yet decided whether her eyes were grey or hazel .
17	If I had not discovered through Exchange and Mart that Lowestoft was the home of the leading ( and cheapest ) breeder of Main Coon kittens in the country , I would not now be mounting the Sir John , clutching a cardboard box riddled with air holes and marked Pac-a-Pet .
18	I told the conference that I had not come into politics to preside over the destruction of the National Health Service and repeated the Government 's commitment to it .
19	I had not asked for that and , even if I had , my chances of obtaining them would have been zero .
20	These included Jespersen 's Primer of the English Language , a book I had not opened since my student days , and then only to shut it immediately , never in the intervening years opening it again .
21	I had not the first notion of mechanics , but you with your capable hands worked on the machine until , after running with it , pushing it along , we were able to make the engine tick over again .
22	Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ?
23	‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me .
24	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 .
25	( I had not provided nearly enough space for her clothes .
26	I had not realized just how cold my house might seem , she having no need to be working about the place .
27	I had not , in fact , ordered a taxi .
28	I did not like to ask ; I had not even liked to ask Leo .
29	I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view .
30	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 !