Example sentences of "i had [verb] [pron] " 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 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 3 | And although I was sharing the pain with her , still I was exulting , because I had made her mine , and what I had had and what I had taken , no man ever in the world could have of her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Some of the nets in use were those I had made myself . |
| 8 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 9 | It was a pilgrimage I had had to make , and I was glad I had made it . |
| 10 | I had made it . |
| 11 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 12 | I was surprised that I had made it this far . |
| 13 | I had made it easy by falling asleep , and at the edge of the gulley . |
| 14 | I thought that I had made it clear that we did not make a profit on the war . |
| 15 | I hoped that I had made it quite plain that there are several different constituent parts of the project . |
| 16 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
| 17 | I had made it quite clear |
| 18 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 19 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 20 | That was where I had made my bed , back in the mid-sixties . |
| 21 | Here 's money for my meat ; I would have left it on the board , so soon As I had made my meal ; and parted With prayers for the provider |
| 22 | ‘ In the first place , he threatened to sell me before I had made my Rangers debut , and I had no reason to believe that he was kidding , either . |
| 23 | I had made my decision and I 'd taken the first step . |
| 24 | Well what with my at , for years at , I had made my mark , not only at but throughout the East of Scotland with trade union activities and various other things . |
| 25 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |
| 26 | I had to do what they told me to do . |
| 27 | I remember I had to do one once , ear , nose and throat and everything and you 're explaining to them where the the erm adenoid and tonsil and tissue was and oh my god talk about |
| 28 | 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 … |
| 29 | I knew I had to do something or I was going to crack from the fear . |
| 30 | They seemed urgent — I felt I had to do something . |