Example sentences of "they [vb past] i [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me they had a little house not far away from where I lived , and that Dorothy was expecting a baby — twins , the doctor had said . |
| 2 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 3 | ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa . |
| 4 | They told me I had an academic future , a considerable future . ’ |
| 5 | They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet , and I 'd got tremendous scarring of the gut . |
| 6 | ‘ They told me I had such a heavy infestation , all the little worms hooked on to my gut and sucking my blood , side by side , looked like velvet … ‘ |
| 7 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |