Example sentences of "i had [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 2 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 3 | By the time she 'd elbowed the door open with two steaming mugs of tea , I had was reading the first thing which had come to hand . |
| 4 | The only second phone call I had was to say what is happening . |
| 5 | Worse one I had was to go and get some elbow grease . |
| 6 | ‘ I came out of the shelter one mornin' and all I had was gone . |
| 7 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 8 | For no good reason , that settled it , by which I mean that what conscience I had was put to sleep by sheer , raging curiosity . |
| 9 | One idea I had was to get the teddy bears to do the ‘ hokey cokey ’ [ p.67 ] with the children putting in their teddies ' left arms and shaking them about . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , I had not read Mary Shelley 's novel since I was a lad ; such recollection of it as I had was obscured by the travesties of it I had watched in 4-D on film , TV , and CirC . |
| 11 | Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young . |
| 12 | The only solution I had was to pay for the guy , bring the piece into my own workshop and re-do the top completely . |