Example sentences of "[conj] i had [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 2 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 3 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 4 | I left the crew to fend for themselves ; they were a married couple , after all , and I remembered a small trattoria in a back street where I had enjoyed a candlelit meal . |
| 5 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 6 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 7 | ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me . |
| 8 | Although I had thrown a stink-bomb through their letter-box ( I was dared to do so ) and had once pulled the belt off Gertie 's dress when teasing her , I do believe that I was the nearest to being a friend of Jossey 's , than anyone . |
| 9 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
| 10 | Although I had had a substantial measure of success , it was a back-breaking activity : it involved the pouring of oceans of hypocritical praise on the undeserving ; attributing powers of discernment and discrimination to the ignorant and myopic ; and only occasionally striking gold in the form of sufficient understanding to make the toil of persuasion unnecessary . |
| 11 | I needed to be reassured that I had reached a hospitable culture … |
| 12 | Now that I had reached a town , there was an elaborate routine to undergo . |
| 13 | It was the first time that I had run a 60 metres in years and I improved my personal best to 6.63 seconds , which I was pleased with — but not so happy , obviously , to lose to Lincoln by one-hundredth of a second . |
| 14 | A feeling that I had run a terrible risk and now everything was going to be all right . |
| 15 | I stood there in the dark and the rain , and knew that I had created a monster . |
| 16 | I was right on both counts , but it did not really sink in for some time that I had joined a charity . |
| 17 | As the years passed I discovered that I had developed a special school ‘ personality ’ which was a distortion of myself . |
| 18 | I told him that I had heard a great deal about his sister . |
| 19 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 20 | I discovered that I had become a ‘ character ’ and was fast becoming a caricature of myself . |
| 21 | And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism , since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness . |
| 22 | I wanted to shout after him that I had made a mistake and that I had really understood him very well . |
| 23 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
| 24 | I realized that I had made a mistake : the no boundary condition implied that disorder would in fact continue to increase during the contraction . |
| 25 | Then I thought that maybe I was at fault , that I had borne a grudge too long . |
| 26 | It was clear long afterwards that I had suffered a serious mental shock . |
| 27 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 28 | But I told him that I had lost a lot of money but had gained a lot of things . |
| 29 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 30 | Now if you do n't tell them that on the phone they 'll use the banker 's order , ah now you did n't tell me Trevor that I had to sign a banker 's order is n't er |