Example sentences of "and i [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean if if I 'd done that this morning and I 'd written it all up before you came in and then said well what we 've done is this and then we did that and then we did that but as as it was generated as we discussed then then you were with me I hope at the way it went |
| 32 | and I 'd written down |
| 33 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 34 | I always knew how much he earned , because he used to give me his pay note and I 'd to go down and collect it . |
| 35 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 36 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 37 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 38 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 39 | It was his birthday and I 'd planned this surprise party for him . |
| 40 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 41 | I 'm going to write a book on , um , the influence of structuralism on feminist literary criticism , and I 'd asked his advice . ’ |
| 42 | The van was in Belmodes and I 'd asked Charley not to park it there , but he always did . |
| 43 | The other exciting thing was the leeches er because the monsoon had n't finished there were lots of leeches around , and I 'd imagined these huge things that were going to suck me to death , but they 're actually little , like , just very very tiny little worms , about erm an inch long and very thin and what they do is they sit on leaves and things and as you walk by they get flicked on to your boots or your socks and then they wiggle their way in and they , you ca n't feel them there , but what they do is they suck your blood until they explode |
| 44 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
| 45 | And I 'd scraped the cooker |
| 46 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 47 | I value your friendship enormously , and I 'd hoped to continue to do so . ’ |
| 48 | You see we divide our time between London and Cornwall and I 'd stayed up late to watch the film with only one light burning . |
| 49 | I 'd done some wedding stationery for a friend , and I 'd painted two hundred and twenty pieces , er erm , sheets of wedding stationery for her , with erm , bud roses and things , I think I might have shown you one , actually . |
| 50 | The suggestion about the car had come from the rifleman — he 'd asked if I had a car , and I 'd said yes , because I did n't want them to know that I 'd come by boat . |
| 51 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |
| 52 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 53 | It had come out and I 'd said it 's what I felt at the minute . |
| 54 | And I 'd said to the And I 'd said to the dentist |
| 55 | And I 'd said to the And I 'd said to the dentist |
| 56 | Pat : He was six months old and I 'd gone down for his second immunisation and I mean the doctor I went to see was a family doctor — I 've known him since I was a baby — and he just , he was looking at him and he just said , ‘ Is your husband Chinese ? ’ |
| 57 | And I 'd gone . |
| 58 | And I 'd gone off passion . |
| 59 | I 'd have dithered and I 'd have got tired and I 'd gone off of |
| 60 | I 'd dithered , and I 'd got tired and I 'd gone off and been |