Example sentences of "had [verb] i do " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father had taught me to do a proper somersault . |
| 2 | he could wander rou , if only Joey had let me do more |
| 3 | I , who had protested I did n't want a doctor , now called after him , " Tell him to hurry ! " |
| 4 | I had said I did n't want to go , that I was tired and that I did n't like the sea . |
| 5 | When I heard that three had died I did not sleep at night I could n't sleep thinking about them . |
| 6 | There were moments when he took on too much ; and although I pursued the matter of our volume only because he had invited me to do so , I soon realized that I was asking more than I should have done , especially as I was uncertain at any moment whether my collaborators saw eye to eye with me about the scope of our project . |
| 7 | ‘ She would often come and have an afternoon cup of tea with me and then pick my brain as to what BA had asked me to do that morning . |
| 8 | Explaining that she was due to meet her INLA boss Dominic ‘ Mad Dog ’ McGlinchey in the Republic that November day , she told detectives : ‘ You may find this hard to believe and think I 'm hard and callous but if Dominic had asked me to do the same again , I would have done it . ’ |
| 9 | Paul had asked me to do a swap to do his early next Wednesday so yeah , put the form in and everything the form came back today saying he 's already on a late and the day that he 's supposed to be repaying me he 's already on shift |
| 10 | Because I recognised my own culpability in what had happened I did n't even argue the point . ’ |
| 11 | My husband did n't like me talking about the theatre although he had encouraged me to do so when we were courting . |