Example sentences of "i had find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays I keep huge lists of every person , organisation and publication connected with birds , so I hope I 'll never again have the problems I had finding that owl . |
| 2 | People who do n't know what they 're doing can kill birds of prey — their weight is very delicately balanced , as you 've seen from the trouble I had finding the right flying weight for Dawn . |
| 3 | I had to find where it was . |
| 4 | I had to find out for myself . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to find you , ’ she said , by way of explanation . |
| 6 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 7 | Pip 's servant at Barnard 's Inn , whom he nicknames ‘ the Avenger ’ because ‘ after I had made the monster ( out of the refuse of my washerwoman 's family ) and had clothed him with a blue coat , canary waistcoat , white cravat , creamy breeches , and [ top boots ] , I had to find him a little to do and a great deal to eat ; and with both of those horrible requirements he haunted my existence ’ . |
| 8 | I had to find pen and paper and write it down . |
| 9 | I did n't care for him — I just knew I had to find out if I could go through with it . |
| 10 | I had to find the money somewhere . |
| 11 | Having decided to show all the four seasons in one picture ( as opposed to other occasions when I have made them as a matching set of four separate pictures ) , I had to find a mount that would blend well with all the seasons and colours , so chose an earthy brown . |
| 12 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 13 | First , while the water was boiling , I had to find some piece of stout wood to hold the boy 's dropped foot in the proper position — ‘ the position of function ’ as Reid had called it . |
| 14 | But , thinking the process through sensibly , I realised I needed to write an essay before winning the £200 , hence I had to find a suitable topic . |
| 15 | I had to find it , going through her things and making a record as her grand London Lawyer instructed me ! ’ |
| 16 | I had to find her a flat , move her in , go to the Electricity Board , and then her husband Monica 's one of those who need a mother , someone who takes her on An idea came into Alice 's head of such beautiful and apt simplicity that she began laughing quietly to herself . |
| 17 | New friendship does not come easy to me , I feel compelled to play it rough at first — your idealism , for example , I had to find out whether it was capable of standing up ; testing and teasing , for me , are a kind of initiation — |
| 18 | But I had to find out . |
| 19 | That 's why I had to find out who James Worsdale was . ’ |
| 20 | I said that if I was going to get into the guitar business , I 'd got to make a highly precision piece — I could n't live with a 32nd or 16th of an inch tolerance and then have some old violin maker filling up the gap with plastic wood , or just leaving a huge crack around the joint as some people do , I had to find a way of making precision wood parts . |
| 21 | I had to find out what had happened . |
| 22 | At the time I had to find somewhere quickly and Edouard agreed to it . |
| 23 | I had to find my own way . ’ |
| 24 | Of course , after my husband died , I had to find work that would enable me to look after her , and this did seem ideal . " |
| 25 | Then I had to find a cab and get back here . |
| 26 | I had to find out a lot of things about you in a short space of time . |
| 27 | I had to find out what commissions she had which would have to be cancelled . |
| 28 | I had to find accommodation . |
| 29 | Out of that I had to find , threepence a day erm bus fare . |
| 30 | She gave a half-sob , added , ‘ I had to find work . |