Example sentences of "i had of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the glimpses I had of her personal life , one feature always came through . |
| 2 | I thought those dreadful fantasies I had of killing Jack were the extremity , the end . |
| 3 | And much as I coveted a wonderful watercolour by Albert that I came across in an Alice Springs gallery for 4,000 dollars I was even more taken with the traditional native art , particularly since it seemed to offer useful hints about a problem I had of seeing the outback in ways other than through the window-on-the-world vision that developed in Renaissance Italy . |
| 4 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 5 | Naturally he could n't forbear from upsetting me , nor ruining what slim remaining chance I had of being like anyone — let alone everyone — else . |
| 6 | Leonard Meager [ q.v. ] , in The English Gardener ( 1670 ) , printed ‘ a Catalogue of divers sorts of Fruit , which I had of my very Loving friend Captain Garrle ’ , containing over 300 varieties , many of them from France . |
| 7 | No I had , I had of the chemist in Chapel because it came |
| 8 | I abruptly asked them the same question I had of Benjamin . |
| 9 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |
| 10 | Although I knew it moved rapidly , all I had of it in my memory was a series of still pictures , captured in rain by lightning . |
| 11 | I 've probably finished what little chance I had of getting out of here in one piece . |
| 12 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 13 | The image I had of whole group drama when I was first introduced to the idea was of a large crowd scene in which everybody was acting as a group . |
| 14 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 15 | Well when you say cake , do n't get the wrong ideas , erm my idea of a cake , the vision that I had of a , a three tier cake , came to me as I was striding home from a meeting across The Downs and I had this vision of a three tier cake . |
| 16 | ‘ Whatever chance I had of getting him has gone because of the incredible publicity . |
| 17 | If I had of done you would have been thinking , Ooh ooh ooh ooh . |
| 18 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |
| 19 | yeah I had of done . |
| 20 | er , you know proper algebra and all that kind of stuff and it , and it was , I think I would of been better if I had of gone to Our Ladies cos I do n't |
| 21 | The two , the two insurance policies I had of erm er the house were on |