Example sentences of "one i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1851 Common claimed that imported McCormick machines he saw were ‘ exactly like the one I had made 40 years before ’ . |
| 2 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 3 | and I spilt the entire contents of that over my shirt one of my old shirts and it 's the only one I had to wear , I actually had to wear it , it absolutely reeked . |
| 4 | It was an interesting airport , the first one I had visited where , in order to get the planes to land and take off , they have to go and shift the seals off the runway . |
| 5 | " You remember , he 's the one I had to call his number to get you , that 's when we were in Frankfurt . |
| 6 | It had come from Eire , but was so like the one I had received from my folk in Somerset , we could hardly believe a Catholic and a Non-Conformist Junior Church magazine could look so much alike . |
| 7 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 8 | Bunting and Irish flags made a bright display , still celebrating the bicycle race of weeks earlier , the one I had seen at Mullingar . |
| 9 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 10 | He fell back , but the other man , the one I had seen first , came running forward . |
| 11 | I had fancied myself a connoisseur of contrast , a gourmet savouring the sweet-and-sour clash between my present lifestyle and the one I had left behind me in East Oxford . |
| 12 | It was a profound shock to return to a very different Air Force than the one I had left before my overseas tour , I feel that a typical true story of this period may well illustrate the sense of the time . |
| 13 | on long , summer evenings ) and quite another to go up to a girl , even one I had known for years and actually do such a thing . |
| 14 | Sure enough , it was one I had ringed less than 24 hours previously , and it had been found drowned in a bucket of custard ! |
| 15 | As soon as I saw the file , I knew it was the one I had stolen from Joe , and I knew that this man knew my convict . |
| 16 | The first time I murdered it was because of rabbits meeting a fiery death , and meeting that fiery death from the nozzle of a Flame-thrower virtually identical to the one I had used to exact my revenge on the warren . |
| 17 | It would be a less beautiful route than the one I had taken earlier , but it was shorter and would be less of a haul . |
| 18 | I had to keep checking the only one I had to keep checking was Dick 's . |
| 19 | After that I searched high and low for a new teacher , and when I found one I had to start from scratch . |