Example sentences of "i had [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from witnessing the now infamous inscription Terribilis ist locus est ( ‘ This is a terrible place ’ ) , incised above the church porch , I had journeyed in vain . |
| 2 | This was the most dramatic move I had made in all my twenty-two years , and , buoyed up by ten cans of lager , I was convinced it was a good idea . |
| 3 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 5 | I was glad to do this , for I had kept in close touch with his work and took a deep interest in it . |
| 6 | I had to lie on this bed with an enormous arch over me and be passed very slowly underneath it . |
| 7 | I had to rely on such copies . |
| 8 | It seems fairly certain that this subvention , which Artaxerxes I had confirmed in 459 B.C. ( Ezra 7.21–2 ) , had been continued by Alexander and the Ptolemies : it was later reconfirmed , though with a changed formula , by Augustus ( Phil . |
| 9 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 10 | This was the first time in my life that I had lived in deep country , without easy access to shops , transport and people I knew . |
| 11 | ‘ So I returned to Sotheby , Wilkinson and Hodge , whom I had joined in 1911 … ‘ |
| 12 | So I returned to Sotheby , Wilkinson & Hodge , whom I had joined in 1911 , and took the place of Mr Lambert , the chief sales clerk . |
| 13 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 14 | I had to guard against any display of triumph . |
| 15 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 16 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 17 | Two fingers I had waved at that driver as he thundered past me , cursing me through the open cab window and fighting the wheel , and those two fingers I now regretted having on my hand . |
| 18 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 19 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 20 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 21 | I had suffered from these cramps four years before and in Tokyo they were bothering me from the start . |
| 22 | I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire . |
| 23 | I had to explain to poor Isabella that Mr Edgar had refused to write to her . |
| 24 | I had fished for half an hour when I felt the line tighten . |
| 25 | With the enthusiasm of a boy I thought I had stumbled across one of the great masterpieces of English writing . |
| 26 | But sometimes these hiding places were found ; and I think that Ann and I had stumbled into one of these hiding places , where the women and children had lain , trembling with fear , listening to the sound of their approaching persecutors . |
| 27 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |
| 28 | I had written to hundreds of firms asking for material support , and had asked royalty , influential people and famous explorers to lend their names to a list of patrons , but all without success . |
| 29 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 30 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |