Example sentences of "[indef pn] i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , everyone I had met today had this wide-eyed look ; the wounded , the jeep drivers , and the Commandos occupying the weapon pits . |
| 2 | There was nothing I had to tell him . |
| 3 | But nothing I had looked right on me . |
| 4 | The experience of playing with one , or on one , was astonishing ; nothing I had read had prepared me for it at all . |
| 5 | About two months after I had returned home , a letter came from Angela Woodin at Bletchley ; she was someone I had wanted to see but had not had the opportunity : |
| 6 | Later I had the honour and privilege of meeting Odette Churchill , the heroine of the French Resistance , someone I had admired for years , ever since reading about her exploits when she received her medal after the war . |
| 7 | Nobody I had spoken to in the train , or on the ferry , had ever visited Moila , which must support , so I was told by one slow-spoken Highlander , no more than thirty folk in all . |
| 8 | Wigan coach John Monie admitted : ‘ Everything I had heard about Workington proved to be true . |
| 9 | Interested in everything I had to say . |
| 10 | They recalled almost in totality everything I had written , the people I had interviewed , the story of the vast corruption in New York 's building trades and how it affected the construction of their monumental World Financial Centre on the Hudson . |
| 11 | Everything I had drawn was there , but nothing more . |
| 12 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 13 | If the location of Alison 's house was a surprise , the interior was everything I had expected . |
| 14 | I must send him something I had written . |
| 15 | It was as though playing in the Wendy House was something I had to do before I could settle to weightier matters . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose it 's because joining up was something I had to do . |
| 17 | It encouraged me to feel that something I had said had evidently gone home . |
| 18 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 19 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 20 | ‘ Something I had thought the people of this land had done with . |
| 21 | There was something I had to tell you — what was it , now ? |
| 22 | Was it something I had dreamed ? |
| 23 | Calder-Marshall pointed out something I had omitted from my ( very brief ) Mass Observation review , then said he still did n't understand why I wanted to do the book and I needed to write and explain this to him . |
| 24 | ‘ The very percussive stuff was something I had to work out . |
| 25 | In the distance I could hear something , something I had to pay attention to . |
| 26 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 27 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 28 | and I spilt the entire contents of that over my shirt one of my old shirts and it 's the only one I had to wear , I actually had to wear it , it absolutely reeked . |
| 29 | It was an interesting airport , the first one I had visited where , in order to get the planes to land and take off , they have to go and shift the seals off the runway . |
| 30 | " You remember , he 's the one I had to call his number to get you , that 's when we were in Frankfurt . |