Example sentences of "i had say " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished I had said nothing about Jordi . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 3 | Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself . |
| 4 | Surely , Masha and I had said , there were safeguards ; a madman on his own simply could n't unleash a nuclear warhead ? |
| 5 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 6 | After a bit , when I had said it twice , he said , ‘ Naomi , if you want any women you will have to find them yourself . ’ |
| 7 | Drugs or even more surgery on yet another organ seemed intolerable , and yet I had said to my surgeon , ‘ I am in your hands . ’ |
| 8 | The family folklore has it that when delirious I had said , ‘ A big black dog sat on the bed and said , ‘ Can I holp you ? ’ |
| 9 | She looked at me as though I had said a dirty word . |
| 10 | Instead the article , obviously based on interviews with my critics , attacked what I had said or written about IQ in other places . |
| 11 | I had said that the world in 1984 will not be much like that in Orwell 's novel . |
| 12 | Like everyone else , including Oscar Wilde , I sometimes wish I had said what someone else has said . |
| 13 | Once I had said that I found it a lot easier to speak to her . |
| 14 | 'A' was what I needed the most , she gave me criticism and took what I had said to her seriously . |
| 15 | Even when a small boy I had said to my mother : ‘ How can Mary be my auntie ? |
| 16 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |
| 17 | On her last evening , after I had said goodbye to her , I happened to pass by a café in which she was sitting , pensively reading a newspaper . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's an honest man , ’ I had said trenchantly , ‘ and there are n't too many of those in politics . ’ |
| 19 | It encouraged me to feel that something I had said had evidently gone home . |
| 20 | In my letter applying to the BBC I had said that I would also like to telephone several undertakers for quotes , stating my exact requirements and then taking the lowest , getting back to them and seeing if they could be beaten down . |
| 21 | At Oxford , it had often discomposed me , as if I had said something foolish or affected , unworthy of comment . |
| 22 | He laughed as if I had said something annihilatingly funny and kneaded my hand gently against his thigh . |
| 23 | It might have sounded embarrassing if I had said it , ’ I smiled . |
| 24 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 25 | She listened without interrupting until I had said all I wanted to say . |
| 26 | She asked why I had said nothing about that accident on the bypass , or seeing Old Red and General Francis on my holiday . |
| 27 | For the rest of the night , I could see him pointing at me and telling all the other guests what I had said to him . |
| 28 | ‘ Then , at the end of the reception , Larry came over to me and asked what I had said to the bride 's father . |
| 29 | I regretted the last statement as soon as I had said it . |
| 30 | I had said what I had to and listened long enough . |