Example sentences of "i had [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way , because I had misunderstood him a bit . |
| 2 | She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny . |
| 3 | I had made them welcome , accepted their nonsensical stories because it did n't matter one way or the other , and then gone obligingly off to bed and left them to their meeting … |
| 4 | When I had made him as comfortable as I could — a relative term , since he was in pain with each new spasm — I cut the two blankets into strips , each one two feet or so wide . |
| 5 | It was a pilgrimage I had had to make , and I was glad I had made it . |
| 6 | I had made it . |
| 7 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 8 | I was surprised that I had made it this far . |
| 9 | I had made it easy by falling asleep , and at the edge of the gulley . |
| 10 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |
| 11 | I hoped that I had made it quite plain that there are several different constituent parts of the project . |
| 12 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 13 | I had made it quite clear |
| 14 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 15 | ‘ If I had to do it again … |
| 16 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 17 | I had to do it all by myself . |
| 18 | It can be more comfortable to say , ‘ I had to do it ’ , than ‘ I did not know what to do and then I decided … ’ |
| 19 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 21 | But I had to do it . |
| 22 | I was to do the counting — up to a hundred ( I could n't count up to a hundred , I had to do it in tens ) and when I opened my eyes he 'd have disappeared . |
| 23 | ‘ I had to do it . |
| 24 | That meant I had to do it . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to do it , ’ she murmured , ‘ had to make you believe me . ’ |
| 26 | The dozen bottles of champagne which Branson sent , with a note ‘ Sorry , I had to do it ’ , were returned to him . |
| 27 | I had to do it in self-defence , or else he would have killed me . |
| 28 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 29 | I had to do it , Jim . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to do it , for you and me , Angel . |