Examples of using "L'avais" in a sentence and their english translations:
I had read it.
- I told you so!
- I told you so.
I had messed it.
I imagined that.
I told you so!
- I saw it coming.
- I anticipated that.
I predicted it.
I did warn her.
I did warn him.
I had read it.
I had read it.
- I told you before!
- I told you so!
I told you so!
- I told you so!
- I told you so.
- I told you so!
- I told you that!
Didn't I tell you so?
I had never seen her.
Did I not anticipate this?
I told you so.
I didn't notice it.
- I had bought it the week before.
- I'd bought it the week before.
Never have I seen her before.
I didn't understand it yet.
I had already spotted him from afar.
Didn't I tell you so?
- I had never seen her before that time.
- I had never seen him before.
I kind of anticipated that.
I did warn him.
I did warn her.
I didn't experience it until grad school.
Didn't I tell you?
- I told you so!
- I told you so.
Really? I had locked it up before I went out.
He asked me if I had found it.
You ran into him earlier, didn't you?
- It was cheaper than I had thought it would be.
- It was cheaper than I'd thought it would be.
I knew I'd seen it before.
- I didn't mean not to tell you.
- I didn't not tell you on purpose.
The movie was interesting, as I had expected.
I had met her many times before then.
I had met him many times before then.
- I told you so!
- I told you so.
If I had known about it, I would have told you.
- Had I known about it, I would have told you.
- If I had known about it, I would have told you.
- I could've helped you if you had asked me.
- I could have helped you if you had asked me.
- I would've told you if I'd known.
- I would have told you if I'd known.
We thought you didn't like it.
I told you I didn't do it.
- I know that Tom knew I did that.
- I know Tom knew I did that.
I hadn't noticed until you said.
and stupidly I had it balanced on an ice cream container lid
The house was more expensive than I had expected.
- I had never seen her.
- I never saw it.
- I've never seen him.
- I've never seen it.
- I never saw her.
- If you hadn't done it, someone else would have.
- If you hadn't done it, someone else would've.
It would have been better if you had left it unsaid.
I couldn't have stayed even if I'd wanted to.
Since I had met him once before, I recognized him right away.
I told you I didn't do it.
Had I taken note of it, I wouldn't have forgotten it then!
The train wasn't as crowded as I thought it would be.
And I was really sad because I hadn't seen this coming.
- Having seen him before, I knew him at once.
- Having seen him before, I recognized him at once.
The actual price was lower than I had thought.