Example sentences of "i had [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So I returned to Sotheby , Wilkinson and Hodge , whom I had joined in 1911 … ‘ |
| 4 | So I returned to Sotheby , Wilkinson & Hodge , whom I had joined in 1911 , and took the place of Mr Lambert , the chief sales clerk . |
| 5 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | With the enthusiasm of a boy I thought I had stumbled across one of the great masterpieces of English writing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a joke — I had to cook for 70 people and there were 12 rooms and a pub as well that could seat 100–200 in summer . |
| 13 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 14 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 15 | So , it 's , alright it 's not a major problem , but that 's the only difficulty with it is it 's not , it 's good having the bus service where you do n't have to pay , right , if you do n't , like I did n't realize the bus went at five past one , and I was all ready to go , and er , it was ten past one , and I thought , oh no , so I had to wait till three o'clock . |
| 16 | I had hoped for thirty on the paved road to bump up the average before the open desert at Adrar . |
| 17 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 18 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 19 | The director of studies , an obnoxious little shit who knew exactly where we both stood , received me in audience after I had waited for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 20 | I recalled how sane and healthy they were , and I contrasted them with the fiends with whom I had to deal in 1816 ! |
| 21 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 22 | When Phil Collins came on , his jacket had such wide shoulders that I had to lean to one side to see the monitor TV set which the producer uses to scribble messages to me . |
| 23 | The memory was triggered by talk of a young woman I had met on one trip who showed me Dyrhólæy and the sea pinnacles of Reynisdrangar near Vik . |
| 24 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 25 | by the time I had gone through five operations I decided that as long as I could breath , that would do me and I , I would really recommend every body to think twice before having any form of plastic surgery , particularly unless its , if its not absolutely necessary . |
| 26 | Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things . |
| 27 | I had graduated in 1930 and I left university in the following year , a few weeks before the economic collapse . |
| 28 | ‘ I was taken to a room which I had to share with three others , two Indian women and one black man , ’ she told me . |
| 29 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to come before two great nations died . |