Example sentences of "i had [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Our new semantic understanding was therefore linked to the changing epiphenomena of dress , hair , clothing , and the other symbols of the body I have mentioned ; but it was also manifest in an irrepressible need to reinterpret and question the social condition , for I had journeyed beyond the norms of the police system , where action to control is preferably a simple matter of enforcing the rules and regulations as they stand .
2 Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters .
3 I did my best to produce an attractive synopsis , embellishing it with some of the sketches I had made on the spot .
4 But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand .
5 THE FIRST thing I had to do at the NME was draw a cucumber .
6 So then er and I had to do with the antique .
7 Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears .
8 Afterwards , I had to lie on a bed in a dark room .
9 One of these blows actually ricked my neck and I had to lie on the floor beneath the table until it was okay to come up again .
10 I had to lie in the darkness , still as a corpse .
11 I had trained for the first time only four days before !
12 I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap .
13 I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful .
14 During the fifties ignorance about Black people was rife : I remember being asked on many occasions , as a child , if I had lived in the jungle , if my parents ate cat food or even people .
15 I had lived in the midst of the Amazons without knowing it .
16 I admit , you and I did rather live our years together in the shadow of Jean-Claude , as I had lived in the shadow of Montaine .
17 For a month I had lived in an open tent , a hundred yards from the nearest human being , and from dawn to dusk had wandered through the jungles , and on several occasions had disguised myself as a woman and cut grass in places where no local inhabitant dared to go .
18 Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area .
19 My father had been embarrassed when my mother or I had wept at the time of his leaving .
20 Some months earlier he , my step-mother and I had moved into a bungalow at 1122 Henleaze Avenue .
21 During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists .
22 If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication .
23 Fingering the lump , I began to scrape the theoretical barrel-bottom ; I had prayed for the whiff of putrefaction had n't I ?
24 To me she represented all that I had imagined of the bygone days of sail .
25 I had to kneel on the floor to reach it and her fingers fastened in my hair .
26 I had to sleep with the light on .
27 When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ .
28 I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life .
29 I had to sleep in a car for two weeks .
30 I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’
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