Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] 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 | I could n't go back to work although I had tried several times and socializing was no fun at all . |
| 3 | At last the shops opened and like a kid with a tanner , I hunted and sniffed and tasted and tried , imagining what I 'd buy if I had all the money in the world . |
| 4 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 5 | I do n't know if I had them or not |
| 6 | I should wait until I had got to the prison camp and then escape . |
| 7 | They would wait until I had more time . |
| 8 | I want to look dark and menacing ; the way I ought to look , the way I should look , the way I might have looked if I had n't had my little accident . |
| 9 | They would n't have got me to come if I had n't had , if I . |
| 10 | It was time to find if I had managed to stay within my budget . |
| 11 | And he said , I had all that and that 's why every time you called me something I just kept laughing cos I had it on tape . |
| 12 | Nothing you had done , or said , would have mattered if I had n't . |
| 13 | She listened without interrupting until I had said all I wanted to say . |
| 14 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 15 | and he just said oh I 'm so sorry he said I would n't have come if I had known , but there was a massive wreath in the garden where that girl was knocked over |
| 16 | ‘ When I bought the VF I left it completely standard because I wanted to establish if I had any talent . |
| 17 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 18 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 19 | A fortnight or so after I had dictated it in October 1971 , I had a telephone call from Harold Wilson to know whether I had read Wigg 's memoirs , and was I aware of the very personal attacks on him and Marcia Williams ? |
| 20 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 21 | This could also be entitled Stop Press , for it occurred after I had sent the first draft to the Hon. |
| 22 | Fifteen years were to pass before I had a book published by Faber 's , but by then I had been launched by other publishing houses . |
| 23 | I went to talk to RELATE when I had problems with my own marriage . |
| 24 | He had as much right to be out walking as I had . ’ |
| 25 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 26 | I asked although I had already decided that Harvey was a little drunk . |
| 27 | But you know when I when I c last time I came from France and I came a came across the widest part of the channel er I got done once I had a B written on my board and then they come and crossed it out . |
| 28 | What more could I do than I had already done ? |
| 29 | I did n't have time to talk cos I had to be here for nine . |
| 30 | Of course it is easy to look back now and say , well , would anyone have noticed if I had left my shoes lying around the changing room instead of buckling them up inside my satchel when I changed into my gym kit for classes with the Butcher ? |