Example sentences of "[prep] i and i had " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | They had done so the first time they got water for me and I had assumed they would continue . |
| 3 | They said they were looking for me and I had to go with them back to the convent . ’ |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 5 | In fact , things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl , Jane Wilde . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ It was very emotional for me and I had a tear in my eye as I came across the line . |
| 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 | He finished 20 minutes behind me and I had two torn hamstrings . ’ |
| 9 | No one had a clue what was wrong with me and I had no idea what was going on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But they lied to me and I had to do it in English . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Eventually a headline from The Sun 's sports pages leapt out at me and I had to try it : Frog 's Legs . |