Example sentences of "[coord] i had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it got , in the end , actually , if I was , if I had to do something that was urgent or I had to go somewhere I used to have to say to her something like , you know , erm oh I better get on , I got a lot to do this morning , or I 'm goi I 've to be shopping and be back in time to cook Jim 's dinner or something like that cos he 's starting , oh I 've got ta have his dinner ready at twelve before he goes to work and if I really was pushed otherwise she would have come in every day . |
| 2 | ‘ When she came back to England at the end of the winter , Anna with Mena and me had moved again into Brown 's . |
| 3 | His answer was very clever : no one could really account for their movements but once again Benjamin and I had drunk deeply from the cup of failure . |
| 4 | What was more , I was 21 years old now and I had discovered just how much freedom I could have away from home ! |
| 5 | The sniping was increasing and I had to move away to help guard some German prisoners we had collected in the action . |
| 6 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
| 7 | He had asked me whether I felt that I could ever be Prime Minister , and I had answered light-heartedly , ‘ No , because I do my sums with matchsticks ’ . |
| 8 | And then on Thursday I went in to work and I had had enough . |
| 9 | Fortunately they 'd given her the job back at the shoe shop , and she and I had to spend only evenings and weekends together . |
| 10 | ‘ Merrill and I had met previously — at a party in this area , actually . ’ |
| 11 | As we had referred to Turkey and the fact that Margaret and I had met there , and as we knew he took great interest in genuine peasant culture , we showed him some Turkish embroidery and in particular two typical Turkish saddle-bags , which we had transformed into cushions . |
| 12 | Some of which were songs John and I had written together . |
| 13 | I bought a Volvo estate care from the Oxford Used Car Centre and I had done rather quite high mileage which I sort of did n't really look at the mileage when I bought it . |
| 14 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 15 | Graham and I had risen early , thinking to creep out and leave our host in peace , but he was a difficult man to steal a march on . |
| 16 | ‘ I had just reached the age where such things were becoming of interest to me , and it was n't too long after the Royal Wedding of Princess Elizabeth when my sister and I had collected as many photos as we could lay our hands on . ’ |
| 17 | Except for our differences over Barbara Castle 's proposals for trade union reform , he and I had worked closely together since 1964 , and during my early days as Chancellor of the Exchequer when sterling was under great strain he was a considerable strength and comfort . |
| 18 | Terry and I had to hiss together . |
| 19 | Sorry Chief Administrator Officer and I had to provide quite a lot of statistical information which I 'd never done before but nevertheless I , I made a fairly reasonable job of it , I had an assistant and erm I , I think I got fairly well known amongst the councillors and people who mattered and then went . |
| 20 | And I had read enough and seen enough from other bits of our work , to feel that a lot of that was to do with coordination of services , or with the fact that services were not packaged to meet individuals ' needs . |
| 21 | Nigel never looked at any building before examining the head , and I had learnt never to become too enthused about interiors until this had been done . |
| 22 | Clubs were cancelling mid-week bookings due to short time and I had to travel farther afield to find work . |
| 23 | The barrel was nearly empty and I had to climb right inside to get my apple . |
| 24 | The soldiers had four camels , but were hopelessly incompetent at loading them and I had got more and more exasperated at the delay . |
| 25 | He and I had talked long into the tropical nights and I had enjoyed his company , and I would have liked to have spent more time with Senator Crowninshield , but three months ? |
| 26 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 27 | Helen : For some reason I thought of it that they 've given me this monster of a baby that I was n't going to be able to love , and some woman came round — she may have been the hospital social worker or an almoner — and spent about an hour telling me how this was going to completely change the course of my life , I was going to be saddled with this child that would need twenty-four hour care and attention , and I had to think carefully about whether I wanted that for the rest of my life , i.e. was I going to keep him — virtually talking me into not keeping him , and I think the turning-point was that I felt there was something coming from the outside that was , sort of , really trying to urge me to reject him , and that I rebelled against it . |
| 28 | I knew about the bad weather , and I had learned later that , on account of this , the plane had been recalled without accomplishing its mission . |
| 29 | I do n't speak Swahili , the local papers were subject to heavy Government censorship and I had learned very little from history books of the opinions or lives of ordinary Kenyans . |
| 30 | As we drank our wine , Pumblechook reminded me of the happy times he and I had spent together during my childhood . |