Example sentences of "i had [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room . |
| 2 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 3 | Some months earlier he , my step-mother and I had moved into a bungalow at 1122 Henleaze Avenue . |
| 4 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 5 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 6 | I had to sleep in a car for two weeks . |
| 7 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 8 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |
| 9 | The night before in the main plaza I had loitered beneath a canopy which had held table football and prize shooting to the pound of rock music . |
| 10 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 12 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 13 | But data stores , I had stumbled on a case of data suppression . |
| 14 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 15 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 16 | I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time . |
| 17 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 18 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 19 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 20 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 21 | Marlies thought I had fallen off a ladder fixing a letter G from the conference slogan of that year , ‘ Britain Winning Through ’ . |
| 22 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 23 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 24 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 25 | I had to wait in a corridor . |
| 26 | I had hoped for a conference with the Turkish and Greek Governments and representatives of the two communities . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 28 | I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man . |
| 29 | From the look on her face you 'd think that I had confessed to a desire to murder her family and steal all her money . |
| 30 | This raucous noise only seemed to emphasize the ominous silence of the island and reminded me of a story I had heard from a traveller who claimed to have sailed the Western Ocean and come across islands inhabited by ghosts of dead sailors . |