Example sentences of "[adj] [det] [noun] i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 2 | Working day at least in all that time I had entered or come out from that building and its reality had gone for me . |
| 3 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 4 | All this time I had had to try hard not to think of what my parents must have been feeling about my going away . |
| 5 | To think that for all these years I had tried to protect them from this very fate and I had n't even the pleasure of using them very often . |
| 6 | I suppose I was remembering all those tests I had so long ago , all those nasty little operations — ’ Irene broke off , looking intently into her cup of coffee , as if it were to blame . |
| 7 | All those years I had been away . |
| 8 | So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home |
| 9 | And Jenny said all those years I had a crush on that teacher she said and I thought he never noticed me . |
| 10 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 11 | Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face . |
| 12 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 13 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |