Example sentences of "had [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 2 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 3 | But we all went swimming on Tuesday nights at Hamilton baths , and I did better than some because my father had taught me to swim on holiday . |
| 4 | My father had taught me to do a proper somersault . |
| 5 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 6 | My mother had taught me that , just as she had taught me to change my underclothes daily and not blow my nose in public . |
| 7 | But the contract I agreed to sign on behalf of Jean-Claude was a very different one from the one M. Chaillot had intended me to sign . |
| 8 | Finally he had to agree I had won , and we said goodbye . |
| 9 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 10 | He had heard me talking to the Princess . |
| 11 | Their noise had stopped me sleeping : shouting , shattering glass , the word ‘ police ’ echoing here and there . |
| 12 | The crime of syphilis had made me ban sex from my mind for weeks ; now I was found not guilty half an hour with a textbook Conchis had given me to look at had convinced me his diagnosis was right — the libido rose strong . |
| 13 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 14 | If he had to go I think that was the way he would have wanted it |
| 15 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 16 | I had to pretend I knew how to mark up blocks . ’ |
| 17 | I had to pretend I wanted to go back with him . |
| 18 | ‘ All right , ’ I had said listlessly , disconcerting my mother considerably , since I was perfectly aware that she had expected me to turn down this preposterous proposal with as much intractability as I had turned down the others . |
| 19 | If they had dominated I expect they would have had at least a few more ( in 20 mins ) . |
| 20 | For the first time since my balls had dropped I felt wholly in the moment , unafflicted by my meddlesome internal projectionist . |
| 21 | Was that why Benjamin had let me go ? |
| 22 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 23 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 24 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 25 | They had let me slip through the net earlier ; they would n't exactly be fans of mine . |
| 26 | Without realizing it he had let me know that using French words , however few and halting , has a bewitching effect upon everything in London , animate and inanimate alike . |
| 27 | It was an hour later that they came back and by then the Jewish family had let me know exactly what was happening in Germany , and my game had become rather more serious . |
| 28 | Now if you 'd got grudge against the bloke who was taking it off in the shop , in the farmyard , after when you got back home , of course you had to come I mean they did n't stick it in the field , like they do now . |
| 29 | So if you 're multiplying an the index of something by three Where you had say I had X squared |
| 30 | I , who had protested I did n't want a doctor , now called after him , " Tell him to hurry ! " |