Example sentences of "i had [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful .
2 I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life .
3 I had to sleep in a car for two weeks .
4 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 .
5 I 've got that broken arm , which I had to put in a sling every time .
6 I had to wait in a corridor .
7 I had remembered the last time I had stood in a garden with a man .
8 ‘ You remember I had to get in a barman to help with drunks and keep a bit of law and order about the place ?
9 But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney .
10 Once when I had thought Nour loved me I had delighted in a garden full of roses surrounding a villa where his aunts lived .
11 There was no way I wanted to be robbed again and I determined if I had to stand in a queue it would be with this chain in my hand .
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