Example sentences of "[vb infin] that i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | How did he know that I had n't slept ? |
| 2 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 3 | She said huskily , ‘ Surely you ca n't really think that I had anything to do with this ? ’ |
| 4 | From the look on her face you 'd think that I had confessed to a desire to murder her family and steal all her money . |
| 5 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 6 | Oh I did n't feel that I had any gripes from our point of view . |
| 7 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 8 | He would assume that I had been detained scrubbing the floors of the kitchens at Grindlewood Park . |
| 9 | And when I got Dawn , I did sense that I had formed an almost human relationship with her . |
| 10 | But neither can I claim that I had anything to do with it . |
| 11 | They would really believe that I had gone completely mad . |
| 12 | I could not believe that I had got my first job . |
| 13 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
| 14 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 15 | Only when she was out of sight and I had turned a corner did I remember that I had left the little willow leaf from her body lying upstairs on her Sophocles . |
| 16 | He , he did n't realize that I had more stacked in the other room ready to come out |
| 17 | Oh yes indeed , indeed , well only last week I said do need some flowers , come on Thursday they 're fresh , I said I want them now Lionel , I hate to be without flowers in the room and he said well have two for the price of one , he would insist that I had two bunches for the price of one . |
| 18 | People would obviously conclude that I had died a coward . |
| 19 | All that morning I was frightened that my sister would discover that I had stolen from her , but luckily she was so busy cleaning the house , and roasting the chickens for our Christmas lunch that she did not notice that I had been out , or that any food was missing . |
| 20 | I hoped she would not discover that I had told Mr Edgar about her quarrel with Heathcliff . |
| 21 | Now I won that game , losing just two ‘ pieces ’ , but only after I left with the comeliest ‘ piece ’ of all , a wench from the imperial harem , did Suleiman discover that I had cheated and publicly marked me down for death . |
| 22 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 23 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |
| 24 | ‘ Just because I knew Mills was suspected of betraying someone does not necessarily mean that I had anything to do with his unfortunate death . |
| 25 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 26 | I did n't realise that I had not completely accepted Zoe . |
| 27 | It was only when I got on the ground and tried to walk did I realise that I had a bullet through the top of my right ankle . |
| 28 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Did n't I mention that I had a bullet-proof skull ? ’ |
| 30 | Back at home I did n't mention that I had barely escaped being branded as a melon thief ; but now , having ridden a bicycle , I realized that I would not be happy until I possessed one of my own . |