Example sentences of "i had an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had an alarming reading for an Agatha Christie film where I was given several sheets of script to sight read without any logical link up in the scenes being read and no-one to read with , except an office assistant who could n't read dialogue . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , I had an affair with my brother-in-law donkey 's years ago . |
| 3 | When we met up as planned , it soon became apparent that Paul had in fact researched the matter in hand extremely thoroughly , and I had an impressive number of addresses and names of contacts to take back to Katrina . |
| 4 | In that same year I was posted to South Shields on the south bank of the River Tyne and quickly became aware that I had an enormous burden to carry , simply because I had spent all of my previous service on ‘ the other side of the river ’ . |
| 5 | I had an au pair once . |
| 6 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 7 | ‘ I had an open cheque on Broadway . |
| 8 | ‘ I think I had an extremely fair hearing , ’ he said afterwards . |
| 9 | ‘ I had an awful dream about that galley of ours . |
| 10 | One day I had an argument with the forelady . |
| 11 | Formerly I had an English couple who used to come every day , that lasted seven or eight years then they got too old . |
| 12 | If I had an area that was wider than the height , I sometimes made a double head , with three noses . |
| 13 | On Wednesday last I had an interview with the Archbishop and he asked me to leave Kidlington and go to a vacant parish in Birmingham ( Rednal ) where a friend of mine had died recently . |
| 14 | Later that afternoon I had an audience with the opera 's new boss . |
| 15 | ‘ I had an anarchist education . ’ |
| 16 | I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion . |
| 17 | I had an enormous slice of quiche that was left over from Friday . |
| 18 | ‘ But I had an operation ’ — she gestures to her loins — ‘ and I ca n't anymore . |
| 19 | I had an addiction to heroin , thanks to Seth , too . ’ |
| 20 | I had an apartment on the third floor , overlooking the square and the end of the Avenida Jose Antonio de Rivera round which I would watch Dana coming to join me for another afternoon of poetry . |
| 21 | I had an old air-raid shelter , partly dug into the ground because of the slope : there was a load of stones on top , waiting to turn the shelter into an apple store disguised as a rockery , and when Mrs Wilson saw this she stood for a long time looking at the hump in the ground and the pile of stones . |
| 22 | In the year of the great snows , I had an attack of gout . |
| 23 | ‘ I told you I had an affair with the Saatchi woman . |
| 24 | My meals came free also , at the nearby cafeteria , and I had an hour off to walk around the town . |
| 25 | I had an arrow right through my body from back to front somewhere in the region of my lower ribs . |
| 26 | ‘ I had an English lover , we were in Switzerland , on the ski slopes … and then we were rushing across pines … ‘ |
| 27 | I had an idea that if I dropped this diaper when we unloaded our bombs , it might help some mother . |
| 28 | I had an introduction to the Revd Dr Donald Caskie , minister of the Scots Kirk in the rue Bayard . |
| 29 | Liveseys ' had a fine reputation and , as works manager , I had an interesting and responsible job . ’ |
| 30 | I had an easy 2 hour labour and there I suddenly was , holding my beautiful baby daughter Danielle in my arms and the last thing on my mind from that moment on was work . |