Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [verb] [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 He was real old so I suppose he had trouble with his false teeth or summat , but anyway , it was pretty disgusting watching him eat .
2 ‘ I hope you do n't mind me arriving without an appointment like this but I understood you had an Open Door policy . ’
3 I see now why you were so evasive when I said I had n't power of attorney . ’
4 I shall nevertheless vote against the motion and I shall vote for the amendment although as much as I wished it had happened or , or erm a different proposal to Mr because I do n't think it helps your argument when you call your opponents instead of arguing face and er unlike Mr I actually do believe its in subsidiarity and I think we should accept Leicester and Leicester only and what the Leicester hunt will do should be decided here in Leicester , not in Westminster , er any more than the composition of our offices should be , should be decided in Brussels and I believe in subsidiarity .
5 I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth .
6 about ten past one , well I had indigestion all night and I could feel it , and we 'd had our tea and I thought oh I do n't know , but I went to bed feeling alright and suddenly I woke up I thought oh my god I 'm gon na be sick , I come running down stairs , but you know I was , I was sick but I know I had n't finished and I 'd sat down and I was sick three times .
7 ‘ I was n't meaning to be rude when I said you had n't changed . ’
8 Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here .
9 comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? ,
10 ‘ I felt terrible when I realised what had happened .
11 She even very kindly offered to attend to things , but I would not let her do that because I knew I had to face up to my responsibilities .
12 It was n't until he asked if he could take some off that I realised he had got himself well wrapped up — with 24 articles of clothing , ’ said Taylor .
13 Richard made a very and I wish he had the confidence about our proposals .
14 I just had to say that is beautiful and I wish I had more words to describe it , but I have n't yet .
15 ‘ I was very happy when I learned I had got a place at Oxford and my mum still has n't come down to earth yet .
16 I did the rest of my round in a state of gloom and at lunch I was still so preoccupied that I wondered what had happened when Tristan served the meal .
17 But then eventually the surroundings grew unrecognizable and I knew I had gone beyond all previous boundaries .
18 The strap is a strong rubber one but I found I had to overtighten it at the surface , otherwise it became loose when my drysuit seal compressed at depth .
19 I kept a five because I remembered I had three fives earlier on .
20 There were two such concepts in particular that I felt I had to include .
21 Well he said yesterday had we , we 'd got enough and I thought we had .
22 Decided he 'd had enough and I suppose you had too .
23 ‘ Some people think I am crazy but I thought I had better do it now while I have the chance . ’
24 The thought of describing it out loud to over a hundred people made it feel less convincing than I thought it had been .
25 There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed .
26 ‘ I was heartbroken when I found I had MS : it seemed the end of all my hopes and dreams , of my career and possibly of marrying and having children . ’
27 However , he then faded from the scene and afterwards said : ‘ I had a lot of clutch trouble and I 'm bitterly disappointed for I thought I had a real chance . ’
28 ‘ No , I 'm not ready and I wish I had n't come , if you really want to know .
29 Aware as I went she had dodged the crucial question .
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