Example sentences of "[subord] i had [adv] " in BNC.

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1 This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’
2 I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind .
3 The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post .
4 I suppose that at school , where I had so little sleep , this assertion was true .
5 I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well .
6 Although I had already spoken to her about past lives , Maxine was not at all sure that she believed in the concept .
7 I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk .
8 ‘ It happened in the gym of this club right in the middle of my training , ’ he recalled , ‘ but it was not the training that brought on the attack although I had probably overdone things .
9 I nodded , although I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about .
10 Although I had certainly saved the palace , I knew it was a crime , punishable by death , to make water anywhere near the palace .
11 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 .
12 Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate .
13 ‘ When I was very young I had frequent dreams of Israel and the River Jordan , although I had never been there , and the first word I spoke was ‘ Abba ’ — the Jewish word for father .
14 Strathbeg is one of the least known and yet most delightful lochs in Scotland and I was aware of its reputation , having discovered it whilst researching my book The Trout Lochs of Scotland , although I had never fished there .
15 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 .
16 What more could I do than I had already done ?
17 It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it .
18 ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’
19 While I did not lose interest in this problem it became clear , after observing a series of routine cases , that medical evidence was often far less important than I had previously imagined .
20 In fact , although there was a cloud hanging over my future , I found to my surprise that I was enjoying life in the present more than I had before .
21 I remember thinking that the whole process of being shot down and being killed seemed very much simpler and less horrible than I had always imagined .
22 ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’
23 ‘ I 've been thinking of you — — far more ’ , he wrote , ‘ than I had ever expected to think of a young man — but then I 've got to know you so well , I really miss you very much . ’
24 It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed …
25 In spite of depressing circumstances , I was more excited and confident than I had ever been .
26 I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before .
27 I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life !
28 I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before .
29 My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life .
30 Actually the truth , beautiful in its simplicity , is far kinder to everybody concerned than I had ever hoped .
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