Example sentences of "[verb] i had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time we met I had almost reached The Old Castle Inn at Old Sarum and good old Dad bought me the largest ginger beer I 've ever had . |
| 2 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 3 | I realized I had n't told him anything about Cal except about the villa and Harry . |
| 4 | Sometime in the afternoon I recovered a little , but I felt faint as I stood up , and realized I had not eaten anything all day . |
| 5 | I realized I had not told anybody where I was going . |
| 6 | I realized I had never known any other world apart from Lowood or Gateshead . |
| 7 | No , I do n't think I had even taken any A levels when I left school . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't think I had ever run in such marvellous conditions . |
| 9 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 10 | And I wanted to pretend I had n't seen it . |
| 11 | Well , it must have been my day as with half an hour to go I had just got to the end of my swim when the float buried and the elastic shot out . |
| 12 | He realised I had finally caught him … |
| 13 | I realised I had not mentioned Elsie at all , and I was glad . |
| 14 | He 'd been glaring and smashing down glasses on the table and muttering under his breath and I wondered what on earth I 'd done to make him so disturbed , and then I realised I had n't done anything . |
| 15 | But then I realised I had n't played one bad shot and I thought ‘ what have I got to fear ’ ’ . |
| 16 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 17 | About4 weeks ago I realised I had only put this in the hallway after the title season , and promptly took it down . |
| 18 | Sometime during the night , I was woken by my cold feet , a warm weight on my chest and the loudest purr I had ever heard . |
| 19 | At Frankfurt Airport I found I had just missed one plane to London and there was not another for three hours . |
| 20 | He completed his art degree at the Berkshire College of Art — ‘ but , at the end , I found I had n't got any answers to my questions ’ — and went as a postgraduate to Reading University to study with Professor Anthony Betts , ‘ the only man I 've ever met who could really teach ’ . |
| 21 | Some of the words he used I had never heard of — and I am not unfamiliar with words — but he savoured them , rolled them over his tongue and finally ejected them into his speech with a delight at their novelty , their colour and their music . |
| 22 | I cleared my throat and kept on eating my burgers , pretending I had n't heard him properly . |
| 23 | I wanted to know why she thought I would be the least bit interested in all that drivel I had just had to sit through . |
| 24 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 25 | Just testing for a hernia , I told I had n't got one ! |
| 26 | The Maggot assumed I had already known that . |
| 27 | I had really been rather lumpish and dull during the drive from Fez : perhaps Flora had thought I had n't wanted her with us ? |
| 28 | I could not believe I had actually done it . |
| 29 | This was by far the best bigjob I had ever achieved . |
| 30 | I was a bit annoyed I forgot I had n't put your name on . |