Example sentences of "[conj] i had do " in BNC.
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1 | I had no intention to going into the art business and although I had done ‘ extra art ’ at school , I sully intended going on the stage . |
2 | It was favourably received and I felt that I had done my hitherto neglected ancestor proud . |
3 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
4 | Following the work that I had done at the MU on the Circuit Board Fault Diagnostic Aid in connection with my MSc project , 2 members of the staff had gained experience of expert systems : the Chief Technician and a civilian who had assisted me during the project . |
5 | I wrote that I had done so before going to Athos . |
6 | Those who were nervous and struggling with their own feelings did not want to expose their gayness in the way that I had done . |
7 | I detailed my education , A Level results , the particulars of my brothers and sisters , everything that I had done while in the Territorial Army and my minimal brush with the law . |
8 | However , I was in no doubt that I had done the right thing by leaving him . |
9 | After that , I thought my support could perhaps be less , that I had done the work . |
10 | I leafed through the newspapers , glad that I had done those interviews . |
11 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
12 | When he asked me if I played I admitted that I had done so but insisted that I really was very bad . |
13 | I was in charge of the rummage crew , and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others . |
14 | I concluded that I had done enough and was getting ready to sidle away when a servant pushed a large bucket of water into my hands and I realised that , under Santerre 's direction , a human chain had been formed . |
15 | In fact 31 of us turned up to support our annual ‘ big day out ’ and enabled me to realise that I had done the correct thing in cancelling the previously booked 20 seater coach . |
16 | I was therefore prepared to take the responsibility of advising him to change his mind , and I was also prepared for him to tell his friends that I had done so . |
17 | Nobody saw anything , and nobody could believe that I had done it . |
18 | ‘ For nearly two years I did nothing , but as I had worked very hard very young , I had no feeling of guilt that I had to do something , because I had already proved that when I wanted to work , I could do it . ’ |
19 | And that 's a bit like that erm the teaching skills that I had to do that time when I was on the course . |
20 | But I realized that I had to do something pretty dramatic to avoid too serious an accident . |
21 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
22 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
23 | It was even just possible that I should have to spend more of the war in this country than I had done in my own . |
24 | Since I was working from this book I read the introduction more carefully than I had done previously . |
25 | For two weeks afterwards I cried more than I had done in my whole life . |
26 | With the bruises and a three-day beard , I was told I looked even more like him than I had done . |
27 | But I found Eliot quieter and calmer than I had done recently , when he had begun to sign letters ‘ in haste ’ . |
28 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
29 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
30 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |