Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McEnroe was philosophical : ‘ It just got to be too long where I had n't won the big one . |
| 2 | It enables me to say that I was accused of racism by Labour Members although I had not mentioned the race of the individuals in the two cases to which I referred . |
| 3 | ‘ Although I had not had a sexual experience when I was at high school , I thought I should be ready , if and when it came , and so I thought I should stock up . |
| 4 | Although I had certainly saved the palace , I knew it was a crime , punishable by death , to make water anywhere near the palace . |
| 5 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 6 | There was even a suggestion that I was one of Juval Aviv 's sources for the Interfor Report , although I had never met the man or even seen his report at that point . |
| 7 | I would be responsible for sound , second-unit camera , and most of the stills — although I 'd never operated a movie-camera or tape-recorder in my life . |
| 8 | " It 's as if I 'd just taken a photograph . " |
| 9 | BELVILLE : It is still my opinion that if I had not discovered the parson as I did , you might have gone to a length that would have put your present situation out of both our powers . |
| 10 | A number of mourners were quite abusive after the service and if I had not found the funeral so moving I would of asked one or two to step into the vestry . |
| 11 | It might have continued like that for me too , if I had not needed a chat with my local breastfeeding counsellor and realised she had not asked for any payment . |
| 12 | I would find the hon. Lady 's argument more credible if I had not experienced the difficulties of trying to remember , when on Tyneside to talk about Tyneside . |
| 13 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 14 | If I had not had a sensation which resembles my present sensation I could not assert , ‘ My sensation is a sensation of white ’ with the same meaning as it would have if I had had a sensation resembling it . |
| 15 | If I had not had the support of Project 81 members , the head of care at Le Court and other friends , I do not think I could have survived . |
| 16 | I suspect it would n't have happened if I had n't lost an important case , important to me anyway . |
| 17 | If I had n't called a halt , you 'd have engineered one somehow … |
| 18 | If I had n't detected the kindness before , I 'd have thought he was sneering ; now I was n't sure . |
| 19 | I do n't think I 'd have spotted it myself if I had n't seen the way he reacted the day we found Wolfgang Klein , when Gebrec got so upset . ’ |
| 20 | And if I had n't met the people I 've met , I think I 'd 've been a very frustrated person cos erm , even though you can think of something , un unless , if you have other people you can go , if you say to somebody you could say , oh God , you know let's do this and this and this , or I think , really think this or this and someone else goes yes I do |
| 21 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 22 | If I had n't requested a delay the embalmers would have already covered her in natron . ’ |
| 23 | Even if I had n't expected the gunships , their colours would have told me what they were . |
| 24 | And they , I I suggested they should come and collect it , and if I had n't got a er er er er a reasonable answer , I would have phoned the police . |
| 25 | Would n't be sitting here going through this process if I if I had n't got no respect for your ! |
| 26 | If I had n't known the Sun was a star , I 'd never have got it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 28 | I do n't believe I would ever have found my insects again if I had n't had a printed picture of the complete set of their evolutionary precursors , and even then it was difficult and tedious . |
| 29 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 30 | If I had n't had the golf-bag on my shoulder , I would have taken off with the umbrella . |