Example sentences of "have [verb] i [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You either sink or swim , ’ she said , ‘ and I 'd decided I was going to swim . ’ |
| 2 | Whereas if I 'd said I was coming with Kevin it would n't have been . |
| 3 | I would if I 'd said I was going to sleep , stay with Hannah |
| 4 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 5 | I 'd thought I was going to rest on my laurels . |
| 6 | ‘ Lady , if I 'd known I was dealing with a certifiable lunatic wild horses would n't have dragged me here . ’ |
| 7 | In fact if I 'd known I was coming here I could have brought you some in , let you seen what we used to do . |
| 8 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 9 | I also felt bad about reading it because I 'm sure Stuart would have thought I was spying . |
| 10 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 11 | She must have known I was watching as she lifted herself from the lake , water running down her long back , the skin glistening in the light cast from the house across the lawn . |
| 12 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 13 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 14 | And then I went and showed her all forms , all these form things that they 've got I were letting her read it . |
| 15 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 16 | The doctor was amazed — he had thought I was going to die . |
| 17 | The one thing that had bothered me was having to borrow Lewis Luther 's helmet . |
| 18 | After he had gone I was standing in front of the fire , my back to it . |