Example sentences of "[noun sg] i had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , I wanted to see the Castle of Zenda and in half an hour I had climbed the hill to it . |
| 2 | So er that was a telephone call to the divisional officer , who was available at the moment and who came down and discussed it with the employer and notwithstanding that , in the afternoon I had given the management one hour to resolve the problem otherwise there was going to be a major walkout . |
| 3 | In my own mind I had valued the things at 4000 roubles each . |
| 4 | Before I had turned back from Bilen I had watched the Awash flowing towards its unknown destination . |
| 5 | The series originated from various communities and when it reached the west coast I had to provide the script for a new show every seven days for ten weeks . |
| 6 | From my hotel window I had watched the tiny procession bearing its little donkey aloft , then seen the children sweep the streets with the palms , startling a piglet from a gutter . |
| 7 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 8 | During the war I had felt the same about those they were attacking , the brave men of the Allied merchant fleets . |
| 9 | The moment I had reached the Rhossili car park at the start of my walk , I realised that the mildness of this sunny spring day was being blown to bits out on Worm 's Head . |
| 10 | As I wrote my journal I had felt the thickness of the left-hand side grow pleasantly fat — a satisfying fertility . |
| 11 | Before she reached my name I had chosen the wife for Old Red ; when Gwenellen Jones answered I had also chosen my bridesmaid 's dress , asked Matron for an extra holiday , coaxed our fare money out of my father , and was flying out to Singapore with Dickie . |
| 12 | The day I had seen the large round blob in my lung . |
| 13 | However , on the last service I had to check the tappets — after removing the rocker cover the only way I could turn the engine over was to put the car in gear and push it backwards . |
| 14 | One night I had to call the vet out at half past twelve as he was sweating and shaking and in obvious pain . |
| 15 | People who do n't know what they 're doing can kill birds of prey — their weight is very delicately balanced , as you 've seen from the trouble I had finding the right flying weight for Dawn . |
| 16 | I realized that the cheerfully forceful woman I had seen the day before must have been Mrs Maureen Kenny herself . |
| 17 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 18 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 19 | And er I think after and when I became sixteen that er had to start paying your your m paying the union I had to join the union as a junior member you know . |
| 20 | I scrambled back down after that and retrieved the ball-bearing I had hit the sign with the day before . |
| 21 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 22 | All my life I had chosen the soft options : good times , good company , good fun . |
| 23 | If for any reason I had to spend the night in town and my friend Wilma could n't have me , I could stay there very cheaply with the girls . |
| 24 | Maybe the reason I had Testified the way I did was a kind of double bhiff on Argol 's part . |
| 25 | With the viewfinder on the camera I had to set the distance and hope when I was shooting , that the shark was at that range . |
| 26 | In my application I had to give the names of two people who could give references about my work . |
| 27 | Through the binoculars , I traced the path I had taken the night before when following Victor . |
| 28 | Like Dönitz , he did n't know when to stop , and in the end I had to prod the interpreter to bring him to a close . |
| 29 | During the summer I had Snowcemmed the exterior to brighten up the drab stonework . |
| 30 | There 's a lot of effect available , but although the ME-6 has its own programmable EQ I had to employ the combo 's tone controls to get anywhere near the results I wanted . |