Example sentences of "[pron] i had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lost faith , not in God but in the carnal love which so preoccupied almost everyone I had ever known . |
| 2 | H. P. I remember one time , the inspector coming round — we did n't always see eye-to-eye — telling me I had n't polished my buttons . |
| 3 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |
| 4 | And something told me I had n't behaved too well . |
| 5 | " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him . |
| 6 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |
| 7 | ‘ You once said if there was anything you could do to help me I had only to come to you and ask . |
| 8 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 9 | She was not at all beautiful , but even with her likeness before me I had always assumed that she must be , since she carried such conviction in her forgotten words and her enduring appearance . |
| 10 | ‘ They found out nothing I had n't told them . |
| 11 | The two men were to be Michael Goldsmith — the bombardier whom I had already met — and Charles Lynch , known as Paddy , a red-haired lance-corporal of the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers . |
| 12 | I was conducting my research with the staff of a school with whom I had previously worked . |
| 13 | That great audience assembled to hear a speaker quite unknown in the political world and the enthusiasm created was an eye-opener to me , and would have been to most of the Westminster hacks with whom I had previously associated public influence . ’ |
| 14 | This certainly stuck a chord with the pilot whom I had just photographed as he flew his newly-restored P-40 for the first time . |
| 15 | I heard rapping at the window beside my bed and another young woman whom I had n't met was standing on the window ledge of the hotel . |
| 16 | That is perhaps why I did n't hear the name of a tall , dark-haired handsome girl whom I had n't met before . |
| 17 | My application to do research at Cambridge was accepted , provided I got a first , but to my annoyance my supervisor was not Hoyle but a man called Denis Sciama , of whom I had not heard . |
| 18 | All I know is that by the time we had entered into residence again that autumn , we found we had made so little progress , and had remained so vague about our aims that , one evening , Harold Mason and I , who had seen more of each other than we did anyone else in the group , resolved to abandon the project altogether ; and I therefore wrote to Eliot , from whom I had not heard further , telling him that our plan had made so little headway that I felt it my duty to tell him not to trouble himself any more . |
| 19 | The progress of this story was to show me the essential solitariness of other people , people whom I had not thought of as being solitary before . |
| 20 | Dear people who could hardly write for arthritis , who had to send aged husbands staggering out in the frost to find something suitable , people whom I had hardly seen and had exchanged no more than the shiest of glances were sending me pictures of daffodils , valleys , seas and mountains . |
| 21 | Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning . |
| 22 | An elderly man whom I had never met before came up to me to offer help . |
| 23 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 24 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 25 | Some of them I had already encountered in Tanglewood Tales I and II , which I 'd read in the class library at a younger and less sexually conscious age , but the power of those stories also lay in what was only half-knowable . |
| 26 | I found work but I did n't tell them I had nowhere to stay , that when it was night time , I got on the night buses and stayed there until morning and then went back to work . |
| 27 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 28 | I I had n't thought of that but er I mean it will be the group kind of er lecturing I mean it wo n't be lecturing to er a full meeting all day . |
| 29 | oh I I had n't thought of that |
| 30 | The modem world from which I had briefly stepped aside seemed to come crowding in again . |