Example sentences of "[pers pn] and i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 2 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 3 | He finished 20 minutes behind me and I had two torn hamstrings . ’ |
| 4 | Now old and new furies possessed me and I had the man by the neck of his jersey and pushed up against the wall . |
| 5 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 6 | Yet I knew there was something familiar about them , as if these ideas from far off generations had revived in me and I had come in contact with ancestral faces . |
| 7 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 8 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 9 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 10 | The slight attack of dysentery had tired me and I had slept most of yesterday and again this morning . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 12 | No one had a clue what was wrong with me and I had no idea what was going on . |
| 13 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 14 | Whether I have conveyed anything of the delight we took in his company I do n't know and his exact words may have been even better but the magic of his style returns to me and I had another giggle writing this . |
| 15 | Everyone , including the Indians , seemed to be happy and laughing , and in my surly mood I unkindly wished them all in hell — chiefly because no one was in any hurry to serve me and I had to sit and watch a party at the next table consume a feast that looked to me as if it had issued straight from Nirvana , before I was even shown a menu . |
| 16 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 17 | Something happened and she just said it , then she hit me and I had to hit her back . |
| 18 | In fact , things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl , Jane Wilde . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 20 | Eventually a headline from The Sun 's sports pages leapt out at me and I had to try it : Frog 's Legs . |
| 21 | Yeah they got me and I had to turn into one of them octopus things . |
| 22 | The soldiers had four camels , but were hopelessly incompetent at loading them and I had got more and more exasperated at the delay . |
| 23 | And I had to clean them and I had to get a bucket of water and sluice it down with a hard broom and . |
| 24 | Well the first crane I drove was a was only at that so I was stuck on one of them and I had to sling me grab all the time and this , this bridge come round and miss the bridge and go over it and rush it down to the hold . |
| 25 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 26 | I got one of them and I had and it 's got that in it . |
| 27 | I think Sarah bought a lot of them and I had some and you know . |
| 28 | My sister still lives in Berkhamsted , where she and I had grown up and where she and John had subsequently made their home . |
| 29 | She and I had the other . |
| 30 | Then , not more than a week later , I was coming down the back corridor from the kitchen when Miss Kenton came out of her parlour and uttered a statement she had clearly been rehearsing ; this was something to the effect that although she felt most uncomfortable drawing my attention to errors made by my staff , she and I had to work as a team , and she hoped I would not feel inhibited to do similarly should I notice errors made by female staff . |