Example sentences of "[noun sg] i had [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I made Midnight Express I had to play a man who was in a permanent messed-up state . |
| 2 | I had agreed to this in case I had to have a Caesarian . |
| 3 | If it were not for the fact that he was one of the favourites you 'd have been delighted but as a Gold Cup winner I had to feel a bit disappointed . |
| 4 | For my additional assessment I had to plan a facility for a chosen client group . |
| 5 | In the struggle I had lost a scarf I valued but never went back for it . |
| 6 | Since John 's abduction I had kept a diary , hoping somehow that I could capture the time John was missing , to keep things from fading so that I could share them with him when he came back . |
| 7 | As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer . |
| 8 | On Saint Theresa 's day I had to paint a frieze of watercolour rose petals to run the length of the classroom walls . |
| 9 | That day I had bought a fern , a modest enough plant but with bright , shiny leaves and an indestructible appearance . |
| 10 | On another occasion I had received a letter from my mother — not usually given to handing out advice : |
| 11 | Towards the summit I had to cross a couple of snowfields , and there was a final rock-climb to get to the top . |
| 12 | After a spell in the sauna I had to make a choice . |
| 13 | As we walked the river path towards Dent a pair of curlews rose in alarm close by a pool where one autumn morning I had watched a heron fishing . |
| 14 | In previous races that season I had beaten a lot of the top contenders , including Woronin and the Frenchman Bruno Marie-Rose . |
| 15 | In the end I had to have a go ! |
| 16 | Just before breakfast I had had a phone call from Ken Billings , one of our best farmers , and his words were still echoing in my head . |
| 17 | By this time I had developed a gut feeling for the topography of the island . |
| 18 | For just a short time I had become a part of the village community on a day that ‘ introduces everybody to everybody else ’ . |
| 19 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ The only other time I had to deliver a baby was during my time in the Army . |
| 21 | For some time I had nourished a wish to write a war memoir , and after a while , and with the approach of the fifteenth anniversary of the start of the war , the desire became urgent . |
| 22 | At one time I had bought a chalet just outside Interlaken . |