Example sentences of "i had [verb] i " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As the most experienced grown-up , I had calculated I would hold my edge till the second day . |
| 2 | I loathed sport well into my teens ; a distinct disadvantage , as I had decided I wanted to be an Officer in the Parachute Regiment or the Royal Marines , a vocation which demanded exceptional physical fitness and courage , qualities I did n't possess . |
| 3 | I had decided I would try to murder Esmerelda before she and her parents even arrived for their holiday . |
| 4 | But if I had to decide I would say my favourite would be ( favourite country ) would be Canada because I have lived there the longest out of all places and so I know it better than any other country . |
| 5 | I had a similar experience in the vestibule of the BBC with an interviewee from the Festival of Light who was declaiming the sins of magazines with open-crotch poses so loudly that I had to pretend I was n't with him . |
| 6 | I had to pretend I was him ! |
| 7 | I had to pretend I wanted to go back with him . |
| 8 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 9 | I had to pretend I knew how to mark up blocks . ’ |
| 10 | If I had wanted I could have shouted there , too , but the noise would have got kind of muffled . |
| 11 | I 'm not sure whether he would have taken action against me if I had realised I was already in his book . |
| 12 | Well then , I thought , if I believed in such a being which I had to confess I once did but no more — He ( She or It ) would certainly have to be on my side now , the game working out as it had . |
| 13 | ‘ I had hoped I would n't have to give a woman the full benefit of our facilities . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Even if I had said I was , which I am not , though I admit to certain sympathies , I can see that you are prey to the usual set of misconceptions . |
| 15 | We were talking about Project 81 , and I had said I was very undecided . |
| 16 | I had said I did n't want to go , that I was tired and that I did n't like the sea . |
| 17 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 18 | I hated to disappoint her , but I had to say I had n't . |
| 19 | But I had to say I 'm sorry Richard , and he said you 're very welcome to come to the service |
| 20 | So in the end I had to say I have n't got any more time to chase up after him , but I could always probably come back again later on in the year . |
| 21 | And they used to catch pheasants and er I had to clean I had to pluck these pheasants and er birds and get them ready and ready for them to put in the oven . |
| 22 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 23 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 24 | He went up there this year , I was up , this is true on God 's , I 'm in this chair he said , come on I 'll I 'm going now I 'm gon na get my , I had to go I had to go and get Rififi , a filly called Rififi I did . |
| 25 | Did n't walk home with me cos I had to go I was and wa , was going to the other side . |
| 26 | It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself . |
| 27 | As , only a few months ago , she very charmingly killed a similar measure that I had introduced I doubly welcome her support now . |
| 28 | I had look I had bloody fives |
| 29 | Finally , ten hours after I had started I arrived at Tocumen airfield , back in one of the least pleasant cities in the Western hemisphere . |
| 30 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |