Example sentences of "that i had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not expect another career , since I felt that I had already had one , but in the event I found not only that , but a fascinating path through life that my original naval calling could not possibly have produced . |
| 2 | I realized that I had completely forgotten what he sounded like . |
| 3 | I tried the church door one last time in the vain hope that I had mistakenly found it closed , but closed it remained . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Did he know that she 'd revealed his habit of farting as he came , or that I had once worn his pyjamas while she blew me ? |
| 7 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 8 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 9 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 10 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 11 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | You could not have thought that I had ever considered her as my wife . |