Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The passport office in Liverpool issued me with a new passport , and , though I had made dozens of requests to the army for a vehicle , BBC Radio Manchester succeeded where I had failed . |
| 2 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 3 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 4 | How did he know that I had n't slept ? |
| 5 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 6 | My conscience shouted that I had to inform . |
| 7 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 8 | The doctor arrived and after examining me pronounced that I had some sort of mystery virus , and there was nothing he could do for me . |
| 9 | In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football . |
| 10 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 11 | I leant back and looked at the seat of my trousers , checking that I had brushed off the mud ; I wanted to make the transition from somebody who had just slept rough to somebody who looked as though he was out for an early walk . |
| 12 | Every now and then Mazzin would run his hands over me , checking that I had n't somehow ripped off the bindings and was n't about to attack him . |
| 13 | He was just checking that I had n't left for good , was glad that I had n't , and was that real coffee he could smell ? |
| 14 | For myself , I pretended that I had left home with full approval , inventing for myself a Harrogate doctor father , fleshing out an imaginary family … . |
| 15 | I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode . |
| 16 | It was a very great shock to me to discover that I had motor neurone disease . |
| 17 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 18 | I know that my hon. Friend will understand if I say that I had some difficulty in persuading everybody to come round a table when I was talking only to the parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | Just believe me when I say that I had nothing whatsoever to do with any of this . |
| 20 | Well just say and just say that I had a bit of a ba an and I 'd like a check over that 's all just say that to them if you want alright ? |
| 21 | Then I mentioned that I had a Lawson Buford tuba solo from 1927 somewhere in my record collection and I was back in favour . |
| 22 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 23 | Winding down I gave a firm strike only to find that I had missed the take , I was gutted . |
| 24 | ‘ I early found that I had not the literary ability to give me such a place among English authors as I should have desired ; but I thought that I had an opportunity of gaining a knowledge of many of the distinguished men of the age , and that I might do some good by keeping a record of my interviews with them . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 26 | I also found that I had a vitamin deficiency , and Anna-Lisa introduced me to vitamin supplements . |
| 27 | I applied for an interview , and shortly afterwards found that I had a new job . |
| 28 | I found that I had far more anger in me than I ever realized . |
| 29 | ‘ When I got to my door I found that I had this cement cock in my pocket . |
| 30 | I hated speaking to large groups of people and normally would have avoided it at all costs , but I found that I had thought so much about this that telling other people was a relief . |