Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] i had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | trying to make it balance all afternoon so I had to start it yesterday to make it balance . |
| 2 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 3 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 4 | I returned the book to the place on the shelf where I had found it and walked quietly out of the room . |
| 5 | Yeah , ah well no , I could n't find you and erm Mick said you were on leave so I had to send it , and I did n't have the address so I had to go and ge , see George . |
| 6 | Within ten minutes he was on the move again but came towards me very fast and swam into the weeds that formed the roof over the hole where I had hooked him in the first place . |
| 7 | I suppose that Kenneth Ingram , the editor , had not quite made up his mind about what I had written , which is the reason why I had forwarded it to Eliot . |
| 8 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |