Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and Uncle Frank was saying those bushes were nice , I had n't even noticed them . |
| 2 | ‘ She was a friend of a friend — I had n't even known she was coming , but one look and I was arrogant enough to decide I was going to make her mine . |
| 3 | I realized , suddenly , that I had n't once seen her properly dressed since my arrival . |
| 4 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 5 | But I did n't think they would put the band back together ; David had mentioned it a couple of times but I had n't really taken him that seriously . |
| 6 | I had also just complimented her on her dress . |
| 7 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 8 | And I had not even asked him for his name ! |
| 9 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 10 | I had never really felt it before or known what it meant . |
| 11 | I had also discovered that I had never really loved him . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If I had anywhere else to go I would leave this house . |
| 14 | I had only just noticed her — so I must have been taking things seriously — but she was worth waiting to be polite to . |
| 15 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 16 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 17 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 18 | But it was a sign that those wartime conditions which had so much restricted him were being lifted when , in October 1946 , The Family Reunion was revived at the Mercury Theatre . |
| 19 | For a press which had almost always got it completely wrong , this was indeed progress . |
| 20 | Irked by the very qualities which had once so attracted him — her girlishness and inconsequential chatter — Hardy gradually excluded Emma from his professional life at a time when his fame as a novelist was steadily growing , and , from about 1890 , frankly looked outside his marriage for companionship . |
| 21 | I mean she had n't even let me know the night before . |
| 22 | Deafened by thoughts he could n't begin to guess at , she had n't even heard him . |
| 23 | Lindsey closed her eyes on the shocking realisation that she had n't even given it a thought ! |
| 24 | Then she realised that he had gone , and she had n't even seen him leave . |
| 25 | She let out the breath she had n't even realised she 'd been holding . |
| 26 | She had n't even noticed her until now , when she stood up , trembling , words coming out in an uncharacteristic torrent . |
| 27 | It was weeks since she 'd seen Elaine , and she had n't even asked her how she felt about James being given the general managership , albeit only temporarily as yet . |
| 28 | She apologized for skulking out of the way so shamelessly , she thanked me for saving the life of their beloved dog who was now prancing around with the children as though nothing had happened , and she finished with the regret that she had n't even asked me my name . |
| 29 | As it was , she had to draw on reserves of courage she had n't even known she possessed just to get her through the opening number . |
| 30 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |