Example sentences of "[vb past] that i had [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Automatically I checked that I had plenty of fuel myself . |
| 2 | Later , he would tell Radio One 's Janice Long : ‘ I believed that I had my own work to do . |
| 3 | He 'd expected it , he added , since he noticed that I had my own plate and cup at work , and bought tea for whoever was sitting with me . |
| 4 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 5 | It was on the morning when registration began that I had my fatal encounter . |
| 6 | ‘ Your absence meant that I had her all to myself at breakfast — with the additional pleasure of escorting her personally to school . ’ |
| 7 | Because I knew that I had my weaknesses , perhaps that is the reason that I was not more successful . |
| 8 | Only the pain was getting rather tedious and Meg insisted that I had it done now before I retired , on the theory I suppose , that better in the Government 's time than my own . " |