Example sentences of "i have [verb] [conj] i had " in BNC.

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1 ‘ And what would I have found if I had ?
2 I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another .
3 I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school .
4 It worried me that I had reacted as I had .
5 I had to say that I had not .
6 They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner .
7 When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village .
8 I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time .
9 I 've stopped because I had hoped you 'd give me an explanation . ’
10 Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk .
11 I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful .
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