Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 2 | I came up with a lot of very hard guitar parts for this album and I had to practise the hell out of them so I could pull them off . |
| 3 | Thing is I had some wool and I had the thing . |
| 4 | I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all . |
| 5 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
| 6 | By the time he had sorted everybody out and told them how to get to Bridlington it was too late for me to use my free pass and I had to pay half fare . |
| 7 | My time in submarines had brought me closer to people of a totally different background and I had learnt a great deal from my sailors about their home circumstances before the war . |
| 8 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 9 | Then one day — I 'll always remember — I was staying at a friend 's house and I was sweeping this carpet and I had this vision . |
| 10 | I went off the second board and I had to get out cos I felt sick . |
| 11 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 12 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 13 | I was having a nervous breakdown and I had to decide whether I was going to spend the rest of my life hiding under a bed , or whether I was going to do what I wanted to do . ’ |
| 14 | But just at that crucial point , fuel had run out , and my entire crew and I had perished in a piece of computer sand that will be forever Hackney . |
| 15 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |
| 16 | ‘ I was in Switzerland on a pre-season tour and I had just missed out on sign ing Dean Saunders , ’ he said . |
| 17 | We got on real well and I had a lot of fun that week . |
| 18 | As promised , one of the project workers gave me an early shake and I had time enough for a coffee before I needed to set off to meet Jenny . |
| 19 | that 's the perfect time and I had this sort of doubt in my mind erm then I was fortunate I learnt a co a very good scripted presentation for getting referred leads and once I started to actually ask , cos that 's all it comes down to , erm then I was getting three , four , in the end I was being quite clever and saying look if you just restrict them to three then I 'll give them the same good service I reckon I 've given you this service |
| 20 | But on the Sunday , perhaps because it was a strange town and I had not yet made friends , I felt all day a sense of doom . |
| 21 | It was a little variegated ivy and I had it indoors , in the hall . |
| 22 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 23 | He had been in the village the previous evening and I had n't bothered to wait up until he returned . |
| 24 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 25 | It was a cold night and I had no overcoat but I was soon sweating with the effort of carrying the suitcase . |
| 26 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 27 | It was funny , we sat in silence facing each other and I had a feeling I 've had once or twice before , of the most peculiar closeness to him — not love or attraction or sympathy in any way . |
| 28 | I knitted myself a dress from that which started off fawn , but we ran out of that colour and I had to finish it off in blue . |
| 29 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 30 | Sapt was carrying a long rope and I had a short , thick stick and a long knife . |