Example sentences of "and i had [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African war had just broken out and I had received my embarkation orders . |
| 2 | You had to force your way through the flow of MPs to get to the No lobby and I had to force my way through to get to the No lobby . |
| 3 | It was the most exceptional emotional and physical experience of my life , and I had to say something … so I said , Rachel … |
| 4 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 5 | We were talking about Project 81 , and I had said I was very undecided . |
| 6 | Cedric had n't changed a bit and I had to battle my way to the broken armchair by the fireside . |
| 7 | I was with him , holding the drip inside the bag , and I had to wrench him free and get out before we ran out of air . |
| 8 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 9 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 10 | The kids scattered quickly and Frankie and I had to explain ourselves ; he ignored Liza as usual . |
| 11 | and then I had to work with these people and I knew that that was the kind of way that they were operating and I had to teach them by the way I worked but in fact it was okay to admit that we do make mistakes . |
| 12 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 13 | And I had to decide what I should say … |
| 14 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was on a Friday night and I had packed my suitcases and taken them around to Rachel 's house so her dad could stack them on top of the car . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It struck me that Jenny , my daughter , had said similar words to me years ago , and I had ignored them . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 22 | Right , a few problems yesterday , a forklift and trailer keys not being signed in and I had taking them home . |
| 23 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 24 | ‘ Funnily enough , I was doing a charity show two weeks ago to raise money for our local scouts and I had to sing it so I know there are four goolies in the song . ’ |
| 25 | And I had to lift your hand for you |
| 26 | And I had killed him ! |
| 27 | And I had killed her . |
| 28 | ‘ Both trays together , ’ I said , and the girl said ‘ Eight pound ninety , ’ and I had to stop myself falling over . |
| 29 | He came back from the loo and I had to stop myself telling him what I 'd found out and that it did n't seem silly or neurotic or hopeless or anything , but just very thoughtful and touching . |
| 30 | Mind you these was instructions from the office to me , telling me what I , what they wanted and I had to carry it out . |