Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loathed sport well into my teens ; a distinct disadvantage , as I had decided I wanted to be an Officer in the Parachute Regiment or the Royal Marines , a vocation which demanded exceptional physical fitness and courage , qualities I did n't possess . |
| 2 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 3 | I had to pretend I knew how to mark up blocks . ’ |
| 4 | I had to pretend I wanted to go back with him . |
| 5 | I had said I did n't want to go , that I was tired and that I did n't like the sea . |
| 6 | I hated to disappoint her , but I had to say I had n't . |
| 7 | So in the end I had to say I have n't got any more time to chase up after him , but I could always probably come back again later on in the year . |
| 8 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 9 | And they used to catch pheasants and er I had to clean I had to pluck these pheasants and er birds and get them ready and ready for them to put in the oven . |
| 10 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 11 | I had look I had bloody fives |
| 12 | Finally , ten hours after I had started I arrived at Tocumen airfield , back in one of the least pleasant cities in the Western hemisphere . |
| 13 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 14 | Well the first crane I drove was a was only at that so I was stuck on one of them and I had to sling me grab all the time and this , this bridge come round and miss the bridge and go over it and rush it down to the hold . |
| 15 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 16 | As I turned away and headed back the way I had come I passed two dead cows lying on the grass , large shrapnel wounds on their bodies . |
| 17 | When I had finished I took off my coat and hung it on a nail . |
| 18 | Even before I had finished I began to experience a great feeling of freedom and relief . |
| 19 | When I had finished I thanked them and was escorted back . |
| 20 | When I had finished I turned and , sinking to one knee , dramatically handed the napkin full of gold back to the king . |
| 21 | It was that sense which had brought me to Munding , which had set me hunting the Green Man in the woods . |
| 22 | She had nagged me to accept it , but now she behaved as though I had done her a disservice by doing so . |
| 23 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 24 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 25 | This she had made me promise when I was nine and she continued to insist that my refusal to live my life her way was selfishness and rank ingratitude . |
| 26 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 27 | ( I learned later that she had thought I had put her into some kind of charitable institution — a sort of workhouse . |
| 28 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 29 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 30 | In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside . |