Example sentences of "[subord] i had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fact I had ample opportunities of verifying on the islands of Bass 's Straits , where I had scarcely stepped from the boat before every creature was made acquainted with my presence — no small annoyance to me , whose object was to secure the wary cereopsis and eagle , which with thousands of petrels and many other kinds of water-birds tenant these dreary islands . ’ |
| 2 | The water-trough was about twelve yards from the barn door where I had just appeared ; and between the door and the water-trough was a single post . |
| 3 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 4 | I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk . |
| 5 | Although I had already spoken to her about past lives , Maxine was not at all sure that she believed in the concept . |
| 6 | Although I had certainly saved the palace , I knew it was a crime , punishable by death , to make water anywhere near the palace . |
| 7 | Although I had now done a few television interviews , I was still a relative novice and there was so much that I wanted to get across to all the people watching . |
| 8 | Although I had always lived in a freezing cold damp house and spent a lot of my own childhood in hospital and even remember my own mum referring to our flats as pneumonia houses , in my ignorance I had never made the connection between our living conditions , ill health and the social and environmental climate . |
| 9 | There was even a suggestion that I was one of Juval Aviv 's sources for the Interfor Report , although I had never met the man or even seen his report at that point . |
| 10 | Strathbeg is one of the least known and yet most delightful lochs in Scotland and I was aware of its reputation , having discovered it whilst researching my book The Trout Lochs of Scotland , although I had never fished there . |
| 11 | What more could I do than I had already done ? |
| 12 | It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it . |
| 13 | While I did not lose interest in this problem it became clear , after observing a series of routine cases , that medical evidence was often far less important than I had previously imagined . |
| 14 | I remember thinking that the whole process of being shot down and being killed seemed very much simpler and less horrible than I had always imagined . |
| 15 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 16 | The rocks were gigantic boulders of conglomerate , monstrous in their barren strangeness , much larger now we were close to them than I had ever realized from the island . |
| 17 | I felt further away from him than I had ever felt , even when I came back from the hospital . |
| 18 | I tried to slacken pace but the slowest I went seemed to be faster than I had ever run before . |
| 19 | She spoke more eagerly than I had ever heard her speak before . |
| 20 | Actually the truth , beautiful in its simplicity , is far kinder to everybody concerned than I had ever hoped . |
| 21 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 22 | Across the bridge the track followed the old corpse road back to Muker through meadows fuller with flowers than I had ever seen before . |
| 23 | The air of the moors , the freedom of home , and the beginning of independence made Diana and Mary happier than I had ever seen them . |
| 24 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 25 | I had banged my head badly and it was bleeding but my father was more angry than I had ever seen him . |
| 26 | I prayed for them in their growing up years more than I had ever done before . |
| 27 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 28 | There were more living things than I had ever dreamt of ! |
| 29 | It made the universe more savage and unknowable than I had ever dreamed … |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been thinking of you — — far more ’ , he wrote , ‘ than I had ever expected to think of a young man — but then I 've got to know you so well , I really miss you very much . ’ |