Example sentences of "i have [verb] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 2 | I 'd said I wanted him back , but I was frightened and I felt I could n't face telling the social workers . |
| 3 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 4 | I was that content with being a mother I 'd decided I did n't want a job until my daughter went to secondary school . |
| 5 | With the money I 'd saved I went over to France , going straight to where she was staying in Tours . |
| 6 | And me being a silly idiot , see if I 'd realized I did n't think you do n't think that there 's three parts of the tank , you think it 's a tank and you just turn your tap on and the water comes out or |
| 7 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 8 | But it explained a few things — the kindness I 'd thought I 'd detected , his seemingly unreasonable act of firing me … |
| 9 | ‘ As I told you , I spent some time writing letters and when I 'd finished I thought it would be pleasant to get some fresh air so I went out and posted them — in the box outside the main post office — ’ |
| 10 | When I 'd finished I thought I 'd go to the living room to curl up by the gas fire . |
| 11 | After I 'd finished I went and did six months in Banbury in er Oxfordshire er doing surgery . |
| 12 | And I 'd got I 'd bought one of his ! |
| 13 | Several boys went to the fi to the fitting shop you see but the I 'd started I claimed to have started I mean it 's I mean there 's no credit to me but at least I was the first You know I 'd really started the thing you know . |
| 14 | you know , quite , But I 'd wished I 'd , I wish I 'd have got those photographs to show off . |
| 15 | I 'd forgotten I had a husband . |
| 16 | I 'd forgotten I had a professional to impress . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd had I 'd had schooling you see ? |
| 18 | Well if I 'd known I 'd gone down there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 21 | I had to pretend I knew how to mark up blocks . ’ |
| 22 | I had to pretend I wanted to go back with him . |
| 23 | I had said I did n't want to go , that I was tired and that I did n't like the sea . |
| 24 | I hated to disappoint her , but I had to say I had n't . |
| 25 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I had look I had bloody fives |
| 29 | Finally , ten hours after I had started I arrived at Tocumen airfield , back in one of the least pleasant cities in the Western hemisphere . |
| 30 | 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 . |