Example sentences of "[conj] i had [verb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 2 | Neither Brian nor I had told our mother about these beatings but now , incensed , I pulled up my shorts and showed him some half-healed scars . |
| 3 | Although I had saved his country from attack by Blefuscan warships , he preferred to remember my refusal . |
| 4 | Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight . |
| 5 | That did the trick — ‘ Of course , ’ recalls the director , ‘ I did n't show him that I had cut my hand in the process . ’ |
| 6 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 7 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 8 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 9 | That she had lied to me , that my father had been betrayed by Mills and that I had avenged her husband 's memory . |
| 10 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 11 | I knew it did me good to be reminded of how much I loathed the suburbs , and that I had to continue my journey into London and a new life , ensuring I got away from people and streets like this . |
| 12 | It did n't help that I had to call my father ‘ uncle ’ and Eric and Paul ‘ cousins ’ ; this was my father 's idea of trying to fool the policeman about my parentage in case Diggs did any asking around and discovered that I did n't exist officially . |
| 13 | Once I realized I loved her and that she loved me it became clear that I had to leave my wife . |
| 14 | I told her who I was , and that I had met her father . |
| 15 | It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track . |
| 16 | It was favourably received and I felt that I had done my hitherto neglected ancestor proud . |
| 17 | It was Jo who first got me to see that I had done my best . |
| 18 | I was in charge of the rummage crew , and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others . |
| 19 | In fact , I saw from the station clock that I had timed my arrival just about perfectly . |
| 20 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 21 | And I would realise with a pang that I had forfeited my right to concern . |
| 22 | Knowing his passion for cycling ( on Mondays , Wednesdays and Fridays ) and rowing ( on Tuesdays , Thursdays and Saturdays ) , I had mentioned in my letter that I had stroked my boat , somewhat ingloriously , for two Torpids and two Summer Eights . |
| 23 | ‘ I always said that I had to put my medical career before my rugby , but the new job will not force me to retire because my colleagues are so supportive and helpful . ’ |
| 24 | It was clear , then , that I had to choose my moment wisely . |
| 25 | Now it was an atrocious stench that infested the windless air , a nauseating compound of decomposing flesh and excrement , so revolting that I had to hold my nose and breathe through my mouth . |
| 26 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 27 | I seriously felt that I had lost my ‘ commercial sense ’ that I had before , and that I would never remember the intricacies of the High Court Rules , how to draft Court Pleadings or even how to write a sensible letter . |
| 28 | It was becoming dark and I realized that I had lost my way . |
| 29 | Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him . |
| 30 | Outwardly it must have seemed that I had overcome my emotional difficulties and , apart from the mysterious phenomenon of my continuing thinness , had become a bright , helpful , well-adjusted member of the school . |