Example sentences of "[adj] i had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | comments fair that he did , he did come in twice and se the third time he said I 'm sorry I had to . |
| 2 | We had only brief glimpses of the parrot as it flew across gaps in the canopy , and with that I had to be content . |
| 3 | While you waited to see me , you had plenty of time to reflect on just how good I had to be to afford a suite of offices like this one . |
| 4 | Although I knew it moved rapidly , all I had of it in my memory was a series of still pictures , captured in rain by lightning . |
| 5 | All I had at the end was a sore hand and broken fingernails . |
| 6 | I had a letter in return to say she 'd come when I 'd accomplished all I had in mind . |
| 7 | PAUL Johnson hammered a record-breaking 167 not out as Nottinghamshire thrashed Kent at Trent Bridge and then confessed : ‘ All I had in mind was finishing the job off this time . ’ |
| 8 | That was all I had in mind , but I ended up , five minutes later , knowing something the police and the probation service did n't know . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's all I had from Dilys on her death bed — and not even sent to me , neither ! |
| 10 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
| 11 | Finding things the reverse , at first I had to consciously think switch down for slow down . |
| 12 | First I had to be cleansed — this meant drinking a lot of medicated water and throwing it up again . |
| 13 | Well , about seventy five I had at 's . |
| 14 | I know next to nothing about wild flowers , and what little I do know I learnt largely when I was a pink-kneed " Boy Sprout " in Manchester and in order to pass some badge or other I had to be able to burn some dough on a stick over an open fire , make smoky porridge and recognise six kinds of trees and flowers from their leaves and blossoms . |
| 15 | When I was young I had on loan a pony who was atrocious in traffic . |
| 16 | shade of blue I had in mind . |