Example sentences of "that i had [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every now and then Mazzin would run his hands over me , checking that I had n't somehow ripped off the bindings and was n't about to attack him . |
| 2 | ‘ Proof that Silas really loved me , and that I had n't just become a habit with him . |
| 3 | I later wrote a little piece for the magazine of the Old Boys of my former grammar school and I said , quite truthfully , that I had n't even told my family what was said between us . |
| 4 | I remembered I 'd had nothing to eat or drink before leaving the house , and thought how awful that I had n't even made Toby a cup of tea before obeying my impulse to run . |
| 5 | I admitted that I had n't quite got around to organizing that aspect of my life yet . |
| 6 | I wanted it to be that I had n't really been that big before I left — in other words , prove them wrong . |
| 7 | But when Joelle introduced us I realized that I had n't really been prepared for the meeting at all . |
| 8 | But apart from that I had n't really thought about it really . |
| 9 | I realized , suddenly , that I had n't once seen her properly dressed since my arrival . |
| 10 | I had some difficulty in persuading him that I had not even seen , let alone read , the book , either in manuscript or in print . |
| 11 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman has introduced me to sayings of his in the House today that I had not previously appreciated . |
| 13 | And in another light-year or two I was through the word-barrier , and the book had suddenly reached the stage — the wonderful moment to get to — where I could walk right into my imaginary country and see things that I had not consciously created , and listen to people talking and watch them moving , all apparently independent of me . |
| 14 | I did n't realise that I had not completely accepted Zoe . |
| 15 | Karen never let me forget that everything we owned was originally hers and hers alone , and that I had not only contributed nothing to our joint capital but was n't bringing in any income either . |
| 16 | I realised that I had only just been in time before all traces of cropmarks had been obliterated . |
| 17 | The very fact that I had only properly discovered a foundation of happiness when separated from the world should have shown me that the tendency of the world was to flood and destroy such a thing . |
| 18 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 19 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 20 | What of the loony fringe that I had so conveniently forgotten ? |
| 21 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 22 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 23 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 24 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 25 | He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before . |
| 26 | I had also discovered that I had never really loved him . ’ |
| 27 | So she dashed off to her room and came back with a piece of underwear that I had certainly never seen before . |