Example sentences of "i was [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was gutted because I had a superb time at Chelsea . |
| 2 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 3 | Immediately I was instructed that I had had the good fortune to be posted to ‘ the division where real polising is done … ’ |
| 4 | I was asked if I had ever thought about finding a flat and living up here . |
| 5 | ‘ I only knew I was playing when we had our warm-up just before the kick-off , and I simply was n't prepared for starting the match . |
| 6 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 7 | Anyway , today I was told that it had been passed . |
| 8 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , I was told that I had ‘ contributed nothing constructive ’ to the life of either the house or the school . |
| 10 | Once I was given the address of Mikhoels ' wife , Anastasiya Pavlovna Pototskaya , and I was told that she had a lot of Chagalls , and that she may possibly want to sell them . |
| 11 | ‘ I was told that you had a motorbike and sidecar . |
| 12 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 13 | I was wondering whether you had an aspirin or something that would help ? |
| 14 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 15 | But I would if I ever got a job and I was working and I had to make a casserole or something . |
| 16 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 17 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 18 | During the summer , and I called into the hospital on several occasions and I was reminded that I had agreed to participate in the ‘ fun run ’ and I decided it would be a good publicity gimmick and improve my chances of sponsorship if I took along and pushed him around the 10 mile course . |
| 19 | Anna was so startled by his perception and directness that she said , ‘ I was worrying that you had got the wrong impression , that you — ’ She stopped , silenced by loyalty . |
| 20 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 21 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |