Example sentences of "had [verb] i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | As the most experienced grown-up , I had calculated I would hold my edge till the second day . |
2 | The army had said I would manage no more than fifteen miles a day . |
3 | For instance , after she had said I would have remained in ignorance , the tree opens wisdoms way though secret she retire , the word secret catches up almost by a mechanical verbal train of association the thought and on it perhaps secret and then all these uneasy feelings that perhaps God 's so far away , or he was n't watching , or in some way or other he did n't actually see . |
4 | If your wife had answered I would have given her a load of old cods . |
5 | The King had decided I would stay in the largest available building , just outside the city gates . |
6 | I had decided I would try to murder Esmerelda before she and her parents even arrived for their holiday . |
7 | ‘ I had thought I would drive to Dublin to collect her , ’ he said . |
8 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
9 | The flunkey hesitated , then responded by answering the last question first — with a figure that was nearly four times larger than the largest sum I had thought I might try asking . |
10 | I had thought I could have complete trust in you to get your charge safely home . |
11 | What a bloody shame , if I had known I would have sent somebody else . |
12 | If I had wanted I could have shouted there , too , but the noise would have got kind of muffled . |
13 | ‘ If I knew what had to arrive I would tell you . ’ |
14 | But if I had to decide I would say my favourite would be ( favourite country ) would be Canada because I have lived there the longest out of all places and so I know it better than any other country . |
15 | Yeah but if I had to eat I 'd take them out , then I 'd put them back on |
16 | When I had finished I could see that it had made not the slightest impression . |
17 | N well I was I was erm I would have been called up in another two months after the War was over , if the War had continued I would have been eighteen in in that in the following January . |
18 | If any House of the Dead notebooks had survived I would expect them to contain sudden leaps of discovery and creative arrivals like ‘ Most important — it 's a chronicle 'and |
19 | The door of the pillbox opened and Cawthorne stepped out , so close to me that if the wind had changed I could have sniffed his after-shave . |