Example sentences of "i had [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time I had made drinking friends in the Hotel Cabo de Hornos with a couple of young American teachers down from Ecuador who had long wanted to visit the Towers of Paine , the very spot where — geologists had written — the two tectonic plates in which I was interested had come together . |
| 2 | I was then able to use this in my Elu96 router along with templates I had made to cut the mitres on both rails and uprights ( the router seems to be the most important part of my kit these days ) . |
| 3 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 4 | Now er when er I was er eighteen I had to do pay er National Health and er it was abo er about a shilling a week and |
| 5 | So , I , cos I had to do talking for her and all ! |
| 6 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 7 | You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters . |
| 8 | During my attacks , I had to lie face down , with my head over the side of the bed . |
| 9 | And I 'd got ten and four pence more we used to pay twelve and fourpence monies I had to borrow to buy the book . |
| 10 | The wall charts were the type of project I felt I had trained to tackle , and this was my first major commission involving both botany and zoology . |
| 11 | Kinloss was a pleasant environment and the locals were extremely kind to the alien invasion , but one felt so very much out of the hurly burly of wartime England , this was made particularly clear when pupils I had trained returned for their rest period , and one did get the message that my operational background was no longer valid or right to pass on to the crews coming forward for conversion to twin-engined aircraft . |
| 12 | Now , she says : ‘ I wish I had gotten rid of him back then instead . ’ |
| 13 | I had moved to warn you , |
| 14 | If I had elected to stay there , I probably would not have become homeless five years later . |
| 15 | Complete Works is , in some ways , easier to use and incorporates some nice ideas , but the problems I had trying to link charts , table and spreadsheets together let it down in the end . |
| 16 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |
| 17 | If I had decided to call the Division again , up on the screen would have gone the sign ’ Division Off ’ and Members would have drifted away . |
| 18 | They must have been sick and tired of my harping about gay rights , but by the time I had decided to move to London in order to set up home with the man of my dreams , my workmates organized a leaving party which was a touching celebration of the relationship between Keith and myself . |
| 19 | I had decided to give up my lodgings to live with him . |
| 20 | I had decided to leave everything in trust to the cat . |
| 21 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 22 | Although I had decided to have neither a healer nor a counsellor , I had , in earlier weeks when feeling positive , made gentle , tentative enquiries . |
| 23 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |
| 24 | Days later , when I had decided to find myself a less cushy job , someone telephoned me and said , –You are ruining my life . ’ |
| 25 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 26 | Yeah , that was all I had to report thank you . |
| 27 | I had to agree to do so , and it was arranged that I would go to the Taibach house the following Sunday afternoon . |
| 28 | I had gained much by marrying Karen , but now the thought of all I had lost rose up to overwhelm me . |
| 29 | The harvest I had seen gathered a few kilometres away was back on the stalk . |
| 30 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |