Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 2 | I tried to free it , using the cloth I had brought up from the hall to gain a better purchase . |
| 3 | So I wanted to see the girl I had worked with because she must have known what happened to my stuff . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you awake , Jane ? ’ asked the voice I had been expecting . |
| 5 | He even produced the document I had signed to that effect , bringing to my attention the relevant clause . |
| 6 | ‘ Before contracting the illness I had already gone through a nightmare year with injuries . |
| 7 | I got the feeling I had n't handled Eric very well over the phone . |
| 8 | cos when I got the paper I had a look and I |
| 9 | Second man in is and he was from Sanco Texas er he only flew a few missions with me , in training I 'd had another co-pilot and er I had checked the co-pilot I had when the crew was organized out , so he could go back through and come as er as a Plane Commander with a crew . |
| 10 | I looked at my lovely children and realised the suffering I had put them through . |
| 11 | Spotting my empty beaker , he grasped the bottle I had been admiring , carefully covering the label with his hand . |
| 12 | During the three weeks I used the machine I had no cause to doubt this . |
| 13 | ‘ And when I 'd parked the car I had an overwhelming urge to kiss you . ’ |
| 14 | But then a week later my clubs turned up ( all but the woods ) so I changed the claim I had made to insurance company just so if covered the woods the money came very quickly for once . |
| 15 | Through the binoculars , I traced the path I had taken the night before when following Victor . |
| 16 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |
| 17 | Until I first inspected the garden I had n't even had the faintest idea that you could grow your own sago as a fence against your neighbour and then eat it ! |
| 18 | To pass the time I had access to the hospital library on VDU , together with TV and video . |
| 19 | ’ Come away in and warm yourself , Archie , ’ I said , adopting an idiom I had absorbed from him . |
| 20 | Now he will never feel the remorse I had hoped he would feel for refusing to see me . |
| 21 | He then told the court I had better not say she was an angel or no angel or the national press will have a hundred field days . |
| 22 | ‘ I told the doctor I had sat opposite a man the night before and had to mentally flick through every male name I knew in order to locate his . |
| 23 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 24 | ‘ When I 'd finished writing the book I had lunch with a publisher ; she walked in with this crestfallen expression on her face , saying , ‘ I expected somebody taller , blonder , and just more … |
| 25 | I have now made the mistake I had resolved , if it were possible , to avoid , and heaped more praises upon him than he will patiently bear . |
| 26 | You should have seen the place I had then — carpets and pictures , lovely it was , I kept it a treat . |
| 27 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 28 | Erm and er oh yes , er no wait a minute I had and take two and started work as a booking clerk , I 've said that before at Needham Station when I was sixteen . |
| 29 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 30 | The editor had kindly accepted an article I had written about West Indian gospel music , so I thought I would go to the head office and introduce myself . |