Example sentences of "i had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 2 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 3 | When mum and I had checked in at the travel desk and given in our suit cases we were able to wander around and have something to eat until our flight was called out . |
| 4 | I just wish it was all over , like now I had to last out until the thirty first of March , which I did do . |
| 5 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 6 | Unfortunately the rapport I had built up with the director was wasted , as the commercial he was working on went wrong and had to be done again , so I met my new director over a pie and a pint in my local before shooting started . |
| 7 | So I had to put up with the , I had a really shitty cycle and then , my run was , you know okay |
| 8 | As happens in any new venture , I discovered that the hours I had to put in at the beginning seemed to outnumber those available in any day . |
| 9 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 10 | The parade I had to lead down from the station to the beat was much longer on nights . |
| 11 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 12 | Erm I had to wriggle out of the scrum |
| 13 | I had to wriggle out of the scrum , right , good |
| 14 | I had called round at the house early in the week to check on how things had gone over the weekend . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 16 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 17 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 18 | ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday . |
| 19 | Then I had to go down to the station to get somebody and by the time I came back , most of the stuff had gone . |
| 20 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 21 | So I thanked Mr. Lennis for his frankness , explained that I had to go back to the bank to deal with some work , and departed . |
| 22 | I , I could feel that I have , I had to go back to the bath to the toilet quite often . |
| 23 | I had to go back into the van to collect my Certificate ( proof ) . |
| 24 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 25 | By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs . |
| 26 | It was a day much like today , hot and sunny , but unlike today there were no tourists about and Dave and I had stripped off to the skin and stepped through the shallows with mud squidging between our toes to the pebbly beach , swimming out into the cool water . |
| 27 | I had gone out into the garden , closing the scullery door as quietly as I could . |
| 28 | I just started to hate the man , I do n't know what I would have done if I had walked out of the interview room and met him in the corridor . ’ |
| 29 | I had arrived up at the office one morning to relieve Freda from night duty , and found her sitting up there looking pleased with herself and Jim looking solemn . |
| 30 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |