Example sentences of "[adj] and i had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The barrel was nearly empty and I had to climb right inside to get my apple . |
| 2 | Oh yes , oh yes yes erm and I 'm on about er on about , for one thing , but you 'd be surprised er it 's the biggest and most elaborate trade of any in the world , locks and keys , I say that very firmly because er there 's no limit , there 's no extent and you , there might be required anything and as I say er I er I had these locks for the asylums and that , you know and er I thought I mentioned it before , I made fifty fifty locks all different and I had to number them and keep a record of them and er I had a , you had the keys on a wire , numbered one up to fifty and they was for big , big asylums , you know what I mean and er they could go in one ward , I 'm on about places where they 'd have twenty or thirty people , you know and er there 's only one bloke could get in there . |
| 3 | On the last day Seve birdied the first hole and Hale took a six on the second , I can remember the scoring because in those days I had to mark all the cards , and I remember putting Irwin down for a six — and then the card blew in to the bunker on the second and I had to go chasing after it . |
| 4 | I was sleeping with my boyfriend , and after a few months I found I was pregnant and I had to stop going there . |
| 5 | I had information he was going protectionist and I had to get in quick . |
| 6 | ‘ I was kicked out by my landlord and put in this hostel which was just awful and I had to get away so I came here — I do n't know why , really , I … ’ |
| 7 | But if we were doing as we do a lot of jobs like that and I had to go round and estimate every one it would cost me more to go round and estimate than it would to do the jobs . |
| 8 | And er he called me in , I had the cane for that and I had to tell the mess boy . |
| 9 | It became out-of-hand and I had to stop Rose , for after all Miss Ironside was my guest and she was getting very angry and upset . |
| 10 | Once , when she was ill and I had to show the doctor in to see her , he was rather disconcerted to see the bedclothes on either side of Mrs Field appear to rise of their own accord — and four dogs emerged ! |
| 11 | And I could n't remember it was forty four and my mind went totally blank and I had to walk out of the exam for over half an hour with a and I could n't remember a thing and went back in . |
| 12 | Both Fabien and I had become older , harder , perhaps , but she had not changed at all . |
| 13 | ‘ You were cold and I had to get you warm . |
| 14 | I read it through as four pounds , and Brenda next to me is saying , fourteen and I had to re-read it , it , course it 's fourteen . |
| 15 | ‘ I was tired and I had to leave at approximately five — in about two hours . |
| 16 | So it was all a hotchpotch , it was all and I had to do the the best I could for those who showed fish and that was the only way I could do it . |
| 17 | ‘ But I felt that the fine was harsh and I had to defend my integrity which has now been upheld . ’ |
| 18 | And they , it was a bit frightening because we were in a group of seventeen and see what I mean when , I mean how it starts is like if were starting with me , I have to say I 'm Tony , right , and then you would say I 'm Jackie and this is Tony and then Christine would say I 'm Christine this is Jackie , this is Tony , I was at the end of a group of seventeen and I had heard it sort of , you hear it , it builds up round the room |
| 19 | Hugo kept telling me my body was glorious and I had come to believe him . |
| 20 | My mother had looked cheerful and I had gone to bed seeing her cheerful face . |
| 21 | My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass . |
| 22 | To begin with I found it almost too much to take on board , but it was all extremely thought-provoking and I had to make a decision to put my heart into it or not to bother at all ; it would have been pointless just to dip into it now and again . |
| 23 | Dealing with customers also taught me that not every situation is the same and I had to think fast and wise when faced with a problem . |
| 24 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 25 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 26 | We did ask Dorothy to do it after I did it for four years , but she was n't keen and I had to go on . |
| 27 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 28 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 29 | My grades were excellent and I had had hands-on work experience with marketing agencies in the West End . |