Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth impressed them where I had failed , and our room was upgraded to a suite as soon as he laid the lardy accent on them . |
| 2 | I stacked the papers carefully and replaced them where I had found them . |
| 3 | I must admit at this stage I though I had cracked it but I should have known after so many years of breeding fish , success is not guaranteed . |
| 4 | But I had no idea how to make them so I had to ask my tutor and show him the work . |
| 5 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 6 | It worried me that I had reacted as I had . |
| 7 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that I had become what my parents had wanted me to be , and I was getting no thanks from either of them for my efforts . |
| 9 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
| 10 | I had two , and then Gabriel was an accident , and somehow the thought that he was an accident was so insulting to me that I had to have some more , to prove that he was n't . |
| 11 | He started knocking me about and telling me that I had to bring in this or that amount of money . |
| 12 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 13 | there were some of them that I had missed er completely but |
| 14 | I suddenly told them that I had to push , the urge was absolutely OVERPOWERING , quite unbelievable . |
| 15 | If I were just starting zandering from the beginning I would not even consider night fishing for them until I had got my act together in the daytime . |
| 16 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 17 | Something happened and she just said it , then she hit me and I had to hit her back . |
| 18 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 19 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl , Jane Wilde . |
| 21 | Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things . |
| 22 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 23 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 24 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 25 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 26 | Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces . |
| 27 | The slight attack of dysentery had tired me and I had slept most of yesterday and again this morning . |
| 28 | Eventually a headline from The Sun 's sports pages leapt out at me and I had to try it : Frog 's Legs . |
| 29 | I 'm not sure whether he would have taken action against me if I had realised I was already in his book . |
| 30 | He replied : ‘ We had our orders and they would have shot me if I had resisted . ’ |