Example sentences of "[vb past] i have [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I 'd seen them , I realized I had to get to her before they did . ’ |
| 2 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 3 | But as the course went on , I realised I 'd backed off some decisions , and shut myself of from what my superiors were saying . |
| 4 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 5 | Okay I pretended I 'd gone to school and I 'd |
| 6 | They believed I had to report to a camp near Dover . |
| 7 | You made it plain from the moment you met me that you were available , but you miscalculated if you imagined I 'd fallen for your little scheme . ’ |
| 8 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 9 | Indeed , it was March that year before I managed to obtain a false set , which meant I had to go through the entire winter without a tooth in the top of my mouth . |
| 10 | ‘ It meant I had to stay in character for the five weeks between the two periods of works . |
| 11 | This meant I had to get in close . |
| 12 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 13 | I knew what they meant : they meant I had to look at myself . |
| 14 | That morning , when the doctor saw I had to go with the pirates to find the treasure , he had left the squire to look after the captain , then took Gray and Ben Gunn with him to be ready to help us . |
| 15 | I felt I had stumbled on the city 's ghetto quarter . |
| 16 | I FELT I had to comment on your England ‘ B ’ article of June 1992 by Paul Stephens . |
| 17 | AS A COPYWRITER AT the agency responsible for advertising the launch of Femidom I felt I had to comment on the remarks made by your testees ( pun intended ) . |
| 18 | I felt I had to write to your readers as an unbiased outsider , although I am an avid reader of your magazine . |
| 19 | I still felt I had to write concerning the Flying ‘ V ’ Hendrix Signature model . |
| 20 | I felt I had strayed into the workshop of a latter-day Anton von Leeuwenhoek , the pioneer microscopist who was noted for his high-performance single lenses . |
| 21 | Which is why I felt I had to speak to you , Hans . |
| 22 | Also , I felt I 'd dealt with the first layer and although I was well aware that there were subsequent layers , I thought I would deal with them at some later date . |
| 23 | I felt totally drawn into the piece as I recognised struggled I 've had with my own mother and my feelings of shame , and fear , talking about sex — the terrible silence that develops which no one attempts to break down for fear of the pain ‘ that ‘ conversation would bring ’ . |
| 24 | Since she died I have tried without success to get this letter . |
| 25 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 26 | I knew I had to choose between the two , and I chose Doctor Jekyll . |
| 27 | It was Daphne who gave me my first art book , The Treasures of Italy , in exchange for several cream wafers , and from that day on I knew I had stumbled across a subject I wanted to study for the rest of my life . |
| 28 | But then eventually the surroundings grew unrecognizable and I knew I had gone beyond all previous boundaries . |
| 29 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 30 | So he left a very deep impression on me ; it was something I knew I had to work towards in the years ahead . |