Sentence examples for had I but from inspiring English sources
My alleged comment to her," he said, breaking into laughter, "was that nor had I". But the criticism clearly hurt.
Neither had I; but I was too taken aback even to reply.
Who is being parodied in the following snippets of noble doggerel?Had I but Strength enough and time Thy boldness Lady were no crime.
Neither had I, but Peter Demetz's elegant and learned examination of that event and its consequences for literature will bring you back to a moment of what seems now to have been innocent excitement, the last breath of fin de siècle optimism before World War I snuffed out optimism for all time.
Kurzel's other flourish is the insolent way Macbeth behaves with his speech after Duncan is murdered: "Had I but died an hour before this chance / I had lived a blessed time …" It is as if he is brazening the thing out or maybe already withdrawing into his own psychotic and delusional world.
Neither have I, but I've got friends who have, very successfully.
Not only have I applied, but I have been accepted.
"I still have it, but I've never read it".
"I wish I had intervened but I didn't.
