Example sentences of "[noun sg] i had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time I remember too the widely reported story I had once thought apocryphal but now know to be in Dr. Ronald Glasser 's The Body is the Hero . |
| 2 | Just in case I had n't made this absolutely clear , I added , ‘ I 'll never forgive you and I 'll never apologize to you and I 'll never do anything you say . ’ |
| 3 | After a number of closed doors there was a feeling of discouragement and uselessness but I thank God that another door has opened — not in a direction I had originally looked but one which I am sure is right for now . |
| 4 | Certainly , it brought about the beginnings of an emotional freedom I had not known , and a deeper commitment to radical politics . |
| 5 | In the jury were such well-known ‘ independent ’ commentators as Rodney Bickerstaffe of NUPE , a Regional Health Authority Chairman I had just replaced , a nurses ' negotiator , a consultant who wanted more money for his hospital and an ancillary health worker . |
| 6 | There was an advertisement for tooth-paste on one of the back pages and I thought at once of the clothing parcel I had not collected . |
| 7 | ‘ Actually , ’ says she , exaggerating the poshness I had not realised was in the word . |
| 8 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 9 | The ‘ Oh ! ’ was caused by a flash of insight ; it seemed like an answer to the prayer I had not prayed , the prayer I had only thought . |
| 10 | Edward studied the original cards — most of them contained quotations from the Rosarium philosophorum , a text I had n't read . |
| 11 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 12 | Of course I had n't bargained on technology , because once the hide is cut to size and checked for blemishes it 's actually put on a cutting form and sent through a roller press . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ I said , because of course I had n't agreed at all . |
| 14 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
| 15 | More than that , a twin sister I had already begun to love dearly , called Donna . ’ |
| 16 | Then , with a blitheness I had never associated with Pike , he stepped two paces back into the path of the oncoming truck . |
| 17 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 18 | This was the most overwhelming experience I had ever had and I wanted to understand it . |
| 19 | A nasty experience I had recently brought to mind an interesting phenomenon — how appropriate people 's names often are . |
| 20 | Since he had paid for my food and lodgings , this was an additional kindness I had not expected . |
| 21 | Supper was excellent , and I spent the night in the smallest bedroom I had ever seen . |
| 22 | ‘ They felt that in the appreciation I had somehow caught what she was about , this thing about how she loved to be in Cornwall and loved to wear her scruffy clothes and wellington boots . |
| 23 | I asked why and she gave me a reply I had n't expected . |
| 24 | Sheringham , who hit 24 goals last season and scored Forest 's winner in their televised 1-0 clash against Liverpool at the City Ground on Sunday , says : ‘ I had virtually concluded negotiations over personal terms with Tottenham 's Terry Venables and in my own mind I had already joined Spurs . ’ |
| 25 | Missed me programme I had n't put it on this morning . |
| 26 | This period around 1967 was the time of the big change-over in the airline business from piston engines to jets , so it was clear that the programme I had selfishly pursued for my own good was in fact a proper course to follow for all Ops inspectors if they were to continue to be able to do their work effectively . |
| 27 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 28 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 29 | Fortunately in my confusion I had sometimes visualized one lung and sometimes the other . |
| 30 | The slow gradient ended when the road climbed the steepest incline I had yet encountered . |