Example sentences of "i had [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the weeks went by and the 5 months I had off work which at first seemed an eternity soon became 5 weeks and then 5 days . |
| 2 | I had as lief do my own endeavour ! ’ |
| 3 | But erm because I 've been out there doing this and that 's that was part of my if you like to come in to do the recruitment side of it , er I had to experience and I 'm glad I did because there were one or two pre-judgements I had about advertising sales , as most people do , erm that I had to get wiped out of my erm my my system . |
| 4 | As I do not , as a rule , take alcohol , the one glass of sherry I had with lunch enabled me to enjoy myself with the other guests . |
| 5 | " Shortly before I left — the last argument I had with mother — she told me that Dermot Corcoran was n't my father . |
| 6 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 7 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 8 | I had for company a silver-grey , two-litre Volvo and the Pensées of Blaise Pascal . |
| 9 | I accompanied the asparagus I had for dinner ( over-cooked ) with a couple of glasses of the Sasbacher Scheibenbuck Müller Thurgau ( trocken ) . |
| 10 | Wine , grapes , bulls and lots and lots of sun , that 's what I had for Christmas , General . ’ |
| 11 | The unit I had for review was the wrist mounted version which had a rubber strap with a built in expander . |
| 12 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 13 | The model I had on test was the five door two litre Ghia , which is right at the top of the saloon range , selling for £17,450 . |
| 14 | When I was young I had on loan a pony who was atrocious in traffic . |
| 15 | ‘ That packet of cherries was the only decoration I had on hand . |
| 16 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |
| 17 | I had to kind of invent a way to do that to make everybody happy . |
| 18 | I had to birth her . |
| 19 | If they did n't , I had to discipline them myself . |
| 20 | And after she had told me , I had to pirouette , sing , laugh : a fairy in a burlesque Midsummer Night 's Dream … |
| 21 | I do n't know about you , but if I had to sort of pass something on to somebody else to check , if I can see somebody scribbling on it , I , I , I , I feel quite edgy , I hate it , I like to feel that I can do it and I can do it well and that other people do n't need to have to amend it . |
| 22 | But I I thought I had to sort of do something . |
| 23 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 24 | Mind you , I had to muscle the zebra up a bit and add the stripes , but the ominous power , the feeling of danger was pure Stubbs . |
| 25 | Remained blissfully unaware till I was seated on this train to Lausanne that reservations and supplements were OBLIGATOIRE on all TGV trains , so I had to fork out about £12 as a result . |
| 26 | ‘ She got very protective about a young deer I had at home recently . |
| 27 | Well well no , you know I had at mum 's and I |
| 28 | The question I return to , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , is always the same : I put everything into this , everything I had by way of mind and body and heart , and this is what I have produced . |
| 29 | In my case it was also different , for though I had done no criminal act I had by force of circumstance set sail for Koraloona to build a new life there . |
| 30 | Apart from learning more about my own language , the eloquent richness of the Queen 's English and the previously undiscovered interest I had in teaching , my job brought me into close contact with real Spanish people . |