Example sentences of "something i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must send him something I had written . |
| 2 | It was as though playing in the Wendy House was something I had to do before I could settle to weightier matters . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose it 's because joining up was something I had to do . |
| 4 | It encouraged me to feel that something I had said had evidently gone home . |
| 5 | I 'd smoked a joint and taken tincture of cannabis , which is something I had done because I did n't smoke cigarettes and the hippies around me would say , ‘ Give her a spoonful of tincture of cannabis so that she 'll get stoned ’ but I did n't know if cocaine was like that . |
| 6 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 7 | ‘ Something I had thought the people of this land had done with . |
| 8 | There was something I had to tell you — what was it , now ? |
| 9 | Was it something I had dreamed ? |
| 10 | Calder-Marshall pointed out something I had omitted from my ( very brief ) Mass Observation review , then said he still did n't understand why I wanted to do the book and I needed to write and explain this to him . |
| 11 | ‘ The very percussive stuff was something I had to work out . |
| 12 | In the distance I could hear something , something I had to pay attention to . |