Example sentences of "i had [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 2 | Since I had to do something during the hours I was supposed to be with Sophie , I joined the local Labour Party . |
| 3 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 4 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
| 7 | For a couple of years she and I had knocked around the Mediterranean , then I had sailed her across the Atlantic . |
| 8 | I thought that Ben had n't had anything left when I had beaten him in the second round the previous day . |
| 9 | For instance , in an 1897 novel , The Typewriter Girl , the heroine comments on finding a job : ‘ I had justified myself before the impartial tribunal of political economy … |
| 10 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 11 | I did n't realise that I had lost it at the party . ’ |
| 12 | I had lost it in the sea when swimming away from the ship . |
| 13 | I had to put one in the microwave |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know I had to put it on the meat — ’ |
| 15 | And I had to put it on the seat of my bicycle , push it all the way and it 'd be a good mile from Street to right across from . |
| 16 | I had to put it on the floor to work the door bar and once I had it open , I slid it out with my foot . |
| 17 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 18 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 19 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 20 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 21 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 22 | In retrospect I can see that this implication can be drawn from the envelope , and I only wish I had realised it at the time . |
| 23 | By the end of that apprenticeship … well , a tacit acceptance would depend on how I had conducted myself in the meantime . |
| 24 | I had noticed him near the end of the queue as it swarmed over the ladder . |
| 25 | See why I had to remind her about the driving license ? |
| 26 | Now , suddenly I had to remind myself of the truth . |
| 27 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
| 28 | I had heard it in the evenings at the school , and at first thought it made by some moronic village boy . |
| 29 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |