Example sentences of "[conj] i had [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 2 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 3 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 4 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 5 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 6 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 7 | I forgot that I had left them there , ’ she said , and then , ‘ Oh , Dr Neil , you did n't … ? ’ |
| 8 | They exclaimed and condoled , with — once I had assured them that nothing serious had happened to my brother — a rather charming mixture of sympathy for me and pleasure in the excitement of the news . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It struck me that Jenny , my daughter , had said similar words to me years ago , and I had ignored them . |
| 11 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 12 | Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home . |
| 13 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 14 | True , everyone had hidden their supplies — buried them in the tobacco patch or the bottom of the grain chest — and I had to convince them that I was n't a forester . |
| 15 | My poor old feet did suffer and I had to have them sorted out not so long ago . |
| 16 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 17 | So I worked down here and nights up there preparing it and all round this , this place was coat hooks and that , where they all hung their things and I had to knock them down , you know what I mean , and fix me own benches up and er I 'd got a little treadle lather and er sufficient for me to start . |
| 18 | Owing to the scale of the former , artefacts needed to be the size of pantomime props to appear remotely in proportion , and I had acquired them accordingly . |
| 19 | Many , many children died , and I had to bury them all . |
| 20 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 21 | And I had to cross them |
| 22 | That way they think twice as much of the girls than if I had praised them myself . ’ |
| 23 | But I should say that if I had to buy them , I would do as I did with the ones I have — buy from a breeder . |
| 24 | And if I had to play them today , I 'd have to get off in a room with a record player , probably for a couple of hours and learn them . ’ |
| 25 | The events of the week-end seemed to recede , to become locked away , as if I had dreamt them ; and yet as I walked there came the strangest feeling , compounded of the early hour , the absolute solitude , and what had happened , of having entered a myth ; a knowledge of what it was like physically , moment by moment , to have been young and ancient , a Ulysses on his way to meet Circe , a Theseus on his journey to Crete , an Oedipus still searching for his destiny . |
| 26 | If I had told them him they would have found out my name . |
| 27 | The cherries were most certainly stolen , but would I really have been a better person if I had left them on the plate ? |
| 28 | Yeah , I did n't have until I had to swap them all round |
| 29 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 30 | I was delighted , not to mention shocked , but I had to turn them down because I am definitely not a portrait photographer . |