Example sentences of "[conj] i had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came out of the army and returned to the Bideford Gazette where I had a year of my newspaper apprenticeship still to go . |
| 2 | I stopped right there , where I had an uninterrupted view , and watched the rim of it flatten out , spreading fire along the ocean 's edge . |
| 3 | Erm I 've got a note , or I had a note to write to the admin at the university and I have done , erm saying that Derek 's been approaching people , apologising for not writing beforehand and saying that Derek 's been approaching people and if they 've got a problem they should write back P D Q. |
| 4 | When my brother or I had a fever , my mother or my grandfather used to come here to find leaves or roots to cure it . |
| 5 | fourteen or I had a sixteen overhead cam Cortina engine sitting up the blokes just swapped it for a two litre cos he wanted some more go . |
| 6 | His feathers grew back although I had a feeling he was never quite the same — he looked , kind of , embarrassed ? |
| 7 | I did n't box , although I had a lot of fights at school . |
| 8 | Although I had a mouthful of sour grapes I thought it was worth going so I could corner Polymers football club chairman , Stan Bates . |
| 9 | My legs went dead and , although I had a walkie-talkie , I could hardly speak because my right arm was wedged into my windpipe . |
| 10 | Perhaps my basic thoughts were externalized by reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky , and realizing that I had a basic Napoleonic complex . |
| 11 | Now it was that I had a chance of discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar off and imitated in fairly cold blood . |
| 12 | On hearing that I had a place among successful candidates I was excited with pleasure . |
| 13 | Suffice it , that I had a few moments of fanciful pleasure . |
| 14 | ‘ It would n't be very nice , would it , if I had to tell people that I had a mean niece . ’ |
| 15 | Three hours earlier a lilting voice had told me that I had a nice big cock . |
| 16 | It is from that kind of what the Germans call fingerspitzen Gefühl — just from the smell of it — that I had a pretty good idea that North was spending a lot of his time on Central American things . |
| 17 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 18 | He went on to say that he had heard from a mutual friend whom he had met in Alexandria that I had a good job , and added : ‘ Mother said , in an old letter which took months to reach me , that it was in the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | Then Romano took me to one side — my father was sitting at his desk — and told me that I had a great future in front of me and that people would be prepared to sell property to the Damianis . |
| 20 | So I did n't grow up with the idea that I had a poet in the family , by marriage of course . |
| 21 | For you must know that I had a twin brother , as beautiful as the day , and gentle as a fawn , and wholesome as new bread and butter , whose company pleased me so much , as mine also pleased him , that we swore an oath never to marry but to live forever peacefully in the castle , and hunt and play together the livelong day . |
| 22 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
| 23 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 24 | This meant that I had a variety of other ‘ close ones ’ to look after me , and a rota was instituted . |
| 25 | As time went on and I knew that I had a fight on my hands , healing became as important to me as my new diet or the other new therapies . |
| 26 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
| 27 | I was always running up against her and being told that I had a shoelace undone , or my buttons needed polishing , or my hair was touching my collar , Airwoman ! |
| 28 | I can remember my grandfather , in the 1940s , telling me that I had a good bump of location . |
| 29 | I also found that I had a vitamin deficiency , and Anna-Lisa introduced me to vitamin supplements . |
| 30 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |