Example sentences of "[conj] i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never accept a job where I had to wear a skirt . |
| 2 | Lili and I were silent and I wondered for a moment how I would be feeling if I was going to marry the man I loved — had loved , I amended in my mind , for surely even I could n't be so idiotic as to love still where I had met with such treachery . |
| 3 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 4 | Having reached the centre of the town , I hobbled back to the north of it , where I had seen vehicles waiting for the filling station to open . |
| 5 | There , where I had hoped to see a fine , impressive house , was nothing but a blackened heap of stones , with the silence of death about it . |
| 6 | Blood ran from his face where I had cut it , but I had fought too many fights that night . |
| 7 | As for myself , I was back where I had begun in Opposition . |
| 8 | It branched off opposite a small village , a satellite of Reggane , almost where I had begun walking . |
| 9 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 10 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 11 | Then I was promoted to assistant cashier at the Wandsworth branch where I had to deal with the toll accounts to go to head office as well as the share accounts and the dividends . |
| 12 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh techniques of surveillance , when you 're sitting alone in a car you move into the passenger seat , make it look as if you 're waiting for the driver to come back … the trouble is , I never got a posting where I had to use it . ’ |
| 14 | I would go to Rome ; Rome , where I had spent so many happy days in the past , would be my final resting place . |
| 15 | The ferry for the outer isles was due to leave at six on the following morning , so I checked into the waterfront hotel where I had booked , then spent the day exploring Oban , and went to bed early . |
| 16 | I had previously been successful in negotiating a settlement between the Boulting brothers and Elvin 's union , where I had enjoyed establishing a warm and friendly relationship With both sides . |
| 17 | I left the crew to fend for themselves ; they were a married couple , after all , and I remembered a small trattoria in a back street where I had enjoyed a candlelit meal . |
| 18 | I wandered ail over the city , getting lost then finding myself again where I had started . |
| 19 | In reality , I was back where I had started — in a position of helplessness and hopelessness — but with one important exception . |
| 20 | Morgan and Smith 1989 ) , where I had had the discussion with Simon Holdaway mentioned above , the symbolic nature of police culture consistently surfaced to confound the economic assessment of good practice which the Home Secretary had set in his opening address to the participants . |
| 21 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 22 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 23 | I knew he was under contract to Warners , where I had worked . |
| 24 | Perhaps one day I would go back to London , and take up my career where I had left off . |
| 25 | They dragged me to the Police Station where I had to make a detailed statement of everything that had happened the first time intercourse took place . |
| 26 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 27 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 28 | The area deserved a better treatment : I had not done justice to a part of northern England where I had wandered as a youngster and often visited later , developing an affection that has persisted into old age . |
| 29 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 30 | The questions of who I was , where I had come from and where I was going struck them with confusion . |