Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 3 | She listened without interrupting until I had said all I wanted to say . |
| 4 | Often I felt so full after eating that I had to lie down or drag myself to lectures , feeling as though I 'd just eaten three Christmas dinners . |
| 5 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 6 | I touched his chest , remembering that I had wanted to desert him once . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ My mind ’ , she said ‘ was set on going and I had to go . ’ |
| 9 | I had to be quick , they told me ; it was quite a long climb to the hut where Eric would be waiting and I had to return to Parma that night . |
| 10 | And then he come in to us then and he says to me I 'm bleeding and I had to get a plaster for him and he |
| 11 | There was only one occasion when , either preoccupied or through sheer inattentiveness , I found him rising before I had made preparations to follow . |
| 12 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 13 | When he started to inquire about my life , I deflected the conversation by saying that I had sold one of the famille rose vases . |
| 14 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 15 | and up the steps out of the underground there was this lass there and I , I ca n't help it I mean I 'm always aware of the fact of having this twenty five year old child , so offspring and there was a girl roughly about his age or slightly younger and she was grey you know that translucent look your skin gets when you 're not eating properly you know that grey sort of pallor and I had an overnight bag in one hand and a briefcase and a handbag in the other and I remember I walked past her and she was begging and I had gone to the sleeper and I 'm sitting there and I 'm thinking you bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep , you could of put briefcase down , overnight bag down , handbag down and got some money out . |
| 16 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 17 | My personal and spiritual growth expanded into every area of my life , twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week , as I came to live more consciously in each and every moment — knowing that I had created that moment , and that it was an opportunity to grow . |
| 18 | I put up with with it then , knowing that I had chosen it . |
| 19 | Knowing that I had to start at a new school in the city , with new people and new teachers , I began to worry all over again . |
| 20 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 21 | ‘ I seem to remember that he never stopped talking and I had given him the cold fish eye . ’ |
| 22 | But we got talking when I had to spend an afternoon in his laboratory checking reports for courts with his staff , and he was ever so nice . |
| 23 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 24 | And then , suddenly , she was struggling and screaming and I had to hold her wrists to stop her from scratching me . ’ |
| 25 | I became frustrated almost to screaming when I had finished a well-received and humorous story about the death of my grandfather and found that she was turned away in deep conversation with another woman . |
| 26 | I was in charge of the rummage crew , and feeling that I had done my bit went to find the others . |
| 27 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 28 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 29 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |