Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 2 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 3 | We carried on a rather halting conversation and it came to me with a bump that my mind had been forced on to different tracks since I had left her . |
| 4 | I only became interested in public relations once I had come back to Germany . ’ |
| 5 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 6 | On Monday there was the English paper — mainly Twelfth Night , which was money for old rope as I had played Feste at school . |
| 7 | By the time he had sorted everybody out and told them how to get to Bridlington it was too late for me to use my free pass and I had to pay half fare . |
| 8 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 9 | The Arctic was everything I expected it to be , and much more in the way of high seas than I had bargained for . |
| 10 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 11 | I left the crew to fend for themselves ; they were a married couple , after all , and I remembered a small trattoria in a back street where I had enjoyed a candlelit meal . |
| 12 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 13 | As , only a few months ago , she very charmingly killed a similar measure that I had introduced I doubly welcome her support now . |
| 14 | When some years ago I decided to pay the Life Governor 's subscription the expense was for me a serious cost but was willing to pay it to ensure that I should continue to enjoy the privileges without having to worry about future subscriptions when I had retired from salaried work . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 17 | Regardless , a 12-minute delay before I had started and the pound signs were ringing up . |
| 18 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
| 19 | A victory over an animal is a hollow one and I had the uncomfortable feeling that I had deprived him of his chief pleasure . |
| 20 | ‘ Well I have n't heard the official report because I had to go to my board meeting , but if you ask me , Maggie 's dragon did it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My surgeon says further surgery would be morally wrong as it could affect my future health but I had to make an effort to get back after the England tour went wrong . |
| 22 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 23 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman made a totally false comparison before he made the totally false allegation that I had misled the House . |
| 25 | I had to write string quartets and little symphonies and I had to write jazz melodies over chords and , eventually , I had to write down my own music . |
| 26 | to actually create the right learning environment for them , there were a thousand little details that I had to attend to , like had I planned my lesson right , was I progressing in the right way round the classroom , had I remembered to chase up certain people 's homework , and stuff . |
| 27 | Exactly , and as they took him back to his room , not his cell , but his room , he turned to my , my mate who was with me and said er , I do n't want an operation I like having sex with little girls , he said now I 've got two little girls and I had to turn and walk away |
| 28 | Trying to escape by going to the only other bar in Woodstock , where I was chased around a table by The Psychedelic Furs because I had given them a bad review in a music paper . |
| 29 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 30 | I ought to be on holiday , but I was n't : this was merely a brief interlude before I had to report to that wretched banker and enmesh myself in a host of false relationships in the Ingard office , to try to discover — what ? |