Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I was just tidying myself up , och just a week lick of lipstick and a puffa blusher basically when I noticed that my mascara was on its last legs so I had to remind myself to stop by at Frazers Innoxa counter as any other tearproof bar theirs brings me out in lumps , so to cut a long story short I just nicked in the sidedoor — honest to god I was festooned with carriers laden down like a workhouse donkey — and I 'd to cut through the shoe department . |
| 2 | For example , when I first lived alone I used to be in a state of anxiety every time I left the house , for fear that I had forgotten something . |
| 3 | The kids scattered quickly and Frankie and I had to explain ourselves ; he ignored Liza as usual . |
| 4 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 5 | I remembered a night by the river when daylight faded , darkness fell and the moon rose at once with a new light and I had thought I understood everything and that everything was good . |
| 6 | I mean we went to pick babe up five o'clock erm Saturday and I had to ring it were really freezing cold |
| 7 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 8 | I could n't kick a door if I was sat on the bloody latch so I had to do something else . ’ |
| 9 | Bill Francis looked so much worse in twelve hours that I had to control my expression when I went back to him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm Well I 'm a trained teacher but er I did n't get much experience in teaching although I had obtained my degree in teaching in nineteen fifty-eight . |
| 12 | As , only a few months ago , she very charmingly killed a similar measure that I had introduced I doubly welcome her support now . |
| 13 | At the end of each day my pillow was so soaked in saliva that I had to wring it out on the floor . ’ |
| 14 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 15 | My exposure to the energy and subtle abilities of my Subud brothers in Java had so ignited my optimism and sense of wonder concerning our hidden natures that I had wangled my way into Lancaster University 's Department of Comparative Religion to write a doctorate on transformational consciousness , in a field which was later to be referred to as psycho-anthropology . |
| 16 | You had to force your way through the flow of MPs to get to the No lobby and I had to force my way through to get to the No lobby . |
| 17 | My master , of course , ambled along like a child and I had to keep him away from the rufflers , those former soldiers looking for easy pickings , the mad Abraham men who danced naked pretending to be insane , the cappers who begged for money and attached horse-locks to the outstretched arms of people stupid enough to give it . |
| 18 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 19 | First , internal Cabinet Office files suggest that Mr Attlee 's engine room was not quite as clean a machine as I had portrayed it . |
| 20 | He came back from the loo and I had to stop myself telling him what I 'd found out and that it did n't seem silly or neurotic or hopeless or anything , but just very thoughtful and touching . |
| 21 | I had loved God more than I had loved Nour and I had betrayed him . |
| 22 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 23 | Cedric had n't changed a bit and I had to battle my way to the broken armchair by the fireside . |
| 24 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 25 | ‘ It will break my heart if I had to give my little girl up . |
| 26 | ‘ Funnily enough , I was doing a charity show two weeks ago to raise money for our local scouts and I had to sing it so I know there are four goolies in the song . ’ |
| 27 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 29 | I went to Croke Park and I had not the slightest interest in Protestantism but I did come from a Fermanagh family where you did live cheek by jowl with republicanism so I had imbibed it undoubtedly and it resurfaced , the inherited knowledge of the heart of the controversy in Ulster . |
| 30 | It was the first time in years that I had blown my top in such a way , and I vowed that it would never happen again , that I would save all my aggression for the track . |