Example sentences of "that i had [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 2 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | So , Paul was worried that I had n't put it in straight were n't you Paul ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ When I die , ’ she said , ‘ you can tell him from me that I had n't forgotten him . |
| 10 | That I had n't forgotten he was my own flesh and blood , but that sometimes you owe more to strangers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it annoyed me that I had not got them worked out already . |
| 17 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 18 | On the wall of that room was a patch where the barometer had hung — so familiar a face that I had hardly realized it was there . |
| 19 | Did you not think when you saw the girl in the way you found her that I had actually ruined her , as she calls it ? |
| 20 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 21 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 22 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 23 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
| 24 | ‘ Hi , ’ said the Ukrainian doorman at the Airds ' building , using the sum of the English that I had ever heard him speak , apart from ‘ God bless , ’ ‘ Cab , sir ? , ’ and ‘ You bet your ass . ’ |
| 25 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |