Example sentences of "i had [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had purchased some land called Dalblair ; and , as in Scotland it is customary to distinguish landed men by the name of their estates , I had thus two titles , Dalblair and Young Auchinleck . |
| 2 | I had no one left to give me advice ’ . |
| 3 | I had over 30 stitches in a deep gash , including seven or eight internal stitches . ’ |
| 4 | At the end of spawning I had over 20 eggs plastered to the sides of the aquarium , so I took a razor blade and carefully scraped them off and placed them in a margarine tub in their own aquarium water . |
| 5 | I had just two questions : how did it feel to be made immortal ? |
| 6 | ‘ I had just one fish from the swim the week before but this time had five botes and took four fish , ’ said David . |
| 7 | I had just one weekend of the melting snow and slush on the fells — very wet indeed — during testing , with no possibility of drying the boots after the first day . |
| 8 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |
| 9 | Having now seen the answers , I find that my wife and I had just one word wrong . |
| 10 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 11 | To him , the new spirit in portraiture is not a question of money : ‘ I had probably one of the wealthiest people in the country finally admit , ‘ With all that I have , I ca n't buy good taste ’ . ’ |
| 12 | To avoid them I should either have had to go several hundred yards through dense undergrowth , or make a wide detour round and above them ; the former would have subjected me to very great danger , and there was no time for the latter , for the sun was near setting and I had still two miles to go . |
| 13 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 14 | In my utter loneliness I had only one resource : several times I took the ferry to North Shields , and walked up the steep bank to a certain public lavatory beside a roaring pub . |
| 15 | I had only one Black doll when I was little . |
| 16 | I had only one session with him . |
| 17 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 18 | They are chewing a drug plant and drinking their quite disgusting beer or spirit — I had only one sip and did not stay to analyse the taste but rejected it instantly — the dancers — wearing headdresses feathered like exotic birds and daubed all over with signs and scribbles — messages to their gods , I assumed — then begin to pound the earth in a movement which matches the drumming perfectly and , like the drumming , is powerfully affecting . ’ |
| 19 | Two years before I had been diagnosed as suffering from ALS , commonly known as Lou Gehrig 's disease , or motor neuron disease , and given to understand that I had only one or two more years to live . |
| 20 | I had only one wish — to find and kill the monster . |
| 21 | I declined with thanks and waved him on : I had only two more miles to walk to Shiel Bridge and could n't get any wetter and did n't want to repay his kindness by spraying water all over his car . |
| 22 | He examined me , and was not surprised to find I had only two legs , though of course I squealed about it . |
| 23 | Then , just to get you really thinking , you answer a second crucial question : What would I do if I had only six months to live ? |
| 24 | I had only six friends . |
| 25 | I had only six or seven miles to go to get to Winter Marsh , and I did n't want to spend the whole day there . |
| 26 | I had only 13 fit players against Manchester United in the Rumbelows League Cup . |
| 27 | I had only three questions to ask him . |
| 28 | ‘ I had only three practise sessions there , but Nos 6 and 8 are very similar . |
| 29 | Er and I had about twelve thousand along there . |
| 30 | Do you know last er , Saturday Emma found er Helen in the staff and I had about fifteen hundred ! |