Example sentences of "i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 2 | It was no particular shock when I found out ; I had expected the test to be positive . |
| 3 | I had previously spent about two years asking local social services and friends for help and not having it happen , so my flat had become pretty run down . |
| 4 | I remember feeling really happy when I was told I had at least six or seven years to live . |
| 5 | I had seen her face before , but only in silhouette , anonymous , as she spoke out about the inhuman conditions of political prisoners in Morocco 's forgotten dungeons . |
| 6 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 7 | I later realized that I had posed during a crucial period , and the tiny bronzes that resulted ( for that size prevailed ) continue daily to touch me . |
| 8 | In possessing her , he is both taken out of , and placed in possession of , himself : ‘ She gave me the idea of my manliness I had grown to need . ’ |
| 9 | He finds himself ‘ considering the idea of flight ’ , and the idea of defeat : ‘ 1 suppose that , thinking of my own harassment and Raymond 's defeat , I had begun to consider Yvette a defeated person as well , trapped in the town , as sick of herself and the wasting asset of her body as I was sick of myself and my anxieties . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I had scaled magic heights and found obscurantism , absence of hope , a world infinitely darker than I had ever imagined possible from where I had stood in the Gorbals . ’ |
| 13 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
| 14 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 15 | I must say , I had certain ambitions for higher education myself , but when you receive the call , as they say , those cherished dreams just have to go by the board . |
| 16 | I had to carry her over the wall , can you imagine , to get her to my rooms . |
| 17 | The English millionaire folded his singed tents and stole away the insurance money , which did n't belong to him since I had nationalized the paper well before the fire was out . |
| 18 | I had the immense and delicate task of restoring confidence in Kambawe . |
| 19 | You 'll guess what happened when I say that I am now commanding the Company — and in the line I had a seraphic boy-lance-corporal as my sergeant-major . |
| 20 | I had n't a clue what was expected . |
| 21 | I had n't done ‘ drama ’ at school , thank God , so I was completely open coming straight from school . |
| 22 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 25 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 26 | For example , I had no idea about playing scenes on a raked stage , which can throw your weight out in placement very considerably . |
| 27 | Before going to RADA I had been encouraged at my school in school plays , which included Oh , What a Lovely War . |
| 28 | Well , my first job came during four weeks of my last term at RADA when I had applied and been chosen for a television play called It 's Too Late to Talk to Billy which was set in Belfast — which is where I came from originally . |
| 29 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 30 | I had the chance to audition for the transfer to London cast of Another Country which requires young actors to play seventeen-year-olds . |