Example sentences of "had [verb] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fell down in a kind of madness , and they had to carry me from the room . |
| 2 | Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally . |
| 3 | The newcomer listened in his turn to the description Mrs Zamzam had given me of the events that led her to run away from Um Al-Farajh , occasionally nodding agreement or interrupting to correct her account . |
| 4 | I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar . |
| 5 | For half a second you might have thought his fist had smashed me across the room , except that I follow through my dive into a roll and end up squatting on the floor , eight feet away , with the pistol pointing straight at his guts . |
| 6 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 7 | I felt proud that Mr Rochester had trusted me with the story of his past life . |
| 8 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 9 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 10 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 11 | The veiled women had reminded me of the nuns . |
| 12 | Nothing had prepared me for the overwhelming architectural beauty of Salamanca , and in particular for the grandeur of the university , the oldest in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe , with its noble façade in plateresque style . |
| 13 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 14 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 15 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 16 | But once Gyggle had positioned me in the tank — which crouched there like a miniature submarine , or a twenty-first-century washing machine — and swung shut the rubber-flanged door , I found it impossible to lose — and therefore as he hoped , reencounter — my self . |
| 17 | I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured . |
| 18 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 19 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 20 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 21 | The extraordinary stop-start conversation between Victor and his monster had convinced me of the latter 's supreme dangerousness : given its malevolence , its lying and eloquent tongue was probably as big a threat as its turn of speed . |
| 22 | Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster . |
| 23 | I told him he could have some of the pills Richard had got me from the chemist yesterday . |
| 24 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 25 | He had had no private income , pension , or — which had surprised me in the last few years — life insurance . |
| 26 | If he had played me at the same age he 'd have given me three blacks start and a beating . |
| 27 | The policeman who had kicked me in the groin began to slap Russell around the head . |
| 28 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 29 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 30 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |