Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] i had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ( again inevitably ) decided to leave job-hunting until after I had actually left SIS . |
| 2 | ‘ Aye , ’ I nodded slowly , hoping to content her with this , then looked away and up to one side as though I had just found something very interesting and important to look at on the ceiling . |
| 3 | He became angry , as though I had personally betrayed him by not giving him a boy . ’ |
| 4 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 5 | Like as though I had never left … |
| 6 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |