Example sentences of "had [vb pp] 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 | When I had finished I could see that it had made not the slightest impression . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |