Example sentences of "i had [verb] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 2 | But I had made a mistake and not put the fellow 's name and address in my book . |
| 3 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 4 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 5 | I had become a Christian when leaving Oxford University through reading the Bible and being convinced that the New Testament documents were reliable . |
| 6 | I had detected a smell and taste of tobacco — and I knew she enjoyed , among other things , a furtive drag at a Woodbine . |
| 7 | I had wagered a purse that I would beat him at bowls and Drake never could resist gold . |
| 8 | I had to take a breather and a hoarse croak escaped me . |
| 9 | I had gained a poet but was losing a lover , perhaps the last I would ever know . |
| 10 | I had to ask a librarian and I managed to use them , but it is an advantage to know how to use them yourself . |
| 11 | In fact , he is not a great motivator through the actual force of his personality , and if I had to name a weakness that would be it . |
| 12 | I had to have a bit because when I put the blackcurrant in there was n't enough so I had to mix it up with . |
| 13 | They swarmed in and I had to have a cup that did n't match the saucer . |
| 14 | Sebastian and I had shared a house when I was lecturing on Crime and Punishment . |
| 15 | My wife and I had bought a home and we were ready to settle down into a comfortable middle-aged , middle-class rut . |
| 16 | If I had bought a hammer or a chisel |
| 17 | I had to construct a model that would lead me to a series of questions that would have empirically testable answers which would allow me to deduce an answer to my original question . |
| 18 | I went , I had to tell a lady that her husband had died er about two Christmases ago , two days before Christmas . |
| 19 | And I had to get a box and many a time I 've fallen on my back from that so Cos somebody had moved the boxes I think . |
| 20 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 21 | Doctor seen it first , she thought I had pulled a hair and it was kind of septic |
| 22 | But obviously I had to make a choice as neither of them wanted a threesome friendship . |
| 23 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 24 | Fortunately , I had chosen a computer that was , at that time , widely used by small businesses , so a variety of software was available . |
| 25 | I had to steal a car and … all sorts of things . ’ |
| 26 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
| 27 | Then I had to find a cab and get back here . |
| 28 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 29 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 30 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |