Example sentences of "i had [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though playing in the Wendy House was something I had to do before I could settle to weightier matters . |
| 2 | So that was the embarrassment I had to do when we went and saw er , Mr erm I had to say to him , you charge BUPA rates do you ? |
| 3 | Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky . |
| 4 | I was scared stiff of going down those cellar steps but Frankie was n't around to do it so I had to do as I was told . |
| 5 | He was obviously in a worse state than I had imagined because to Toby a bar invariably meant a sponsor 's tent where the booze flowed like water , and at no expense to the consumer . |
| 6 | I had decided when in Rome to do as the Romans or in this case , more appropriately , when in Babylon do as the Babylonians — no , I do n't mean I 'm having orgies in the servants ’ quarters , or letting Gooseneck have his way with me . |
| 7 | I said I had to leave because I was going to dinner . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |
| 9 | I exclaimed — as once I had exclaimed when reading the Electra . |
| 10 | Some years ago , I was censured following a public reading of a play I had written because of the behaviour of a female character in it . |
| 11 | I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 12 | for whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I was |
| 13 | This left me in a situation where I had to decide if I could afford to finance the aircraft on my own . |
| 14 | I had to finish because I started trying to make everybody laugh . |
| 15 | It worried me that I had reacted as I had . |
| 16 | I told him how uneasy I had become when I was approached or touched by anyone . |
| 17 | I had known that this was pending but when , over the last few weeks , I had enquired when they were going to start out , the reply was always the same , ‘ Oh , I think we 'll wait a bit and hope for some warmer weather . ’ |
| 18 | I had to wait till I was 40 to get him — but it was worth it . ’ |
| 19 | I was not allowed to play when Mum and Dad were in because they could n't stand the din , so I had to wait until they were down the pub to enjoy myself . |
| 20 | I had to wait until after grace . |
| 21 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
| 22 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 23 | Alas I had to refuse as I will be away in Palm Beach on that date . |
| 24 | But then , if I had waited until you had your full wits about you , you might have realised my intention and signed the house over to your daughter and her bastard . ’ |
| 25 | The lady I hoped to marry was Miss Marjorie Alice Barrett , who was a teacher in the National school of St Luke 's , Maidenhead , which I had attended when the family moved up from Somerset , and from which I gained a free place to the local county school . |
| 26 | One very important thing that I had noticed since we landed in Normandy five days ago was that no one had any problem with insomnia. quite the reverse . |
| 27 | Stephen looked mystified as she went on , ‘ When was the last time you really listened to anything I had to say unless it was about business ? |
| 28 | It was the same cry I had heard when I was with Stapleton on the edge of the Great Grimpen Marsh . |
| 29 | In his book Travels on my Elephant , which topped the best sellers ' list , he wrote ‘ This idea evolved from a drawing I had discovered while clearing out my grandmother 's house after she had died . |
| 30 | I made 400 before great arcing beams of light snaked out above the eastern-bounding ridges of the valley and I had to stop as blocks and slates came hurtling down the softening snow . |