Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb past] [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 The next thing is er on the agenda we 've got the or I thought we had .
2 He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand .
3 It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune .
4 He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it .
5 ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend .
6 Well he said yesterday had we , we 'd got enough and I thought we had .
7 And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago
8 When I auditioned with Mike , he gave me a list of twenty-five songs to work on and I thought I had to learn them all in five days , because we were starting rehearsals only a week later !
9 It grew cold , and I thought I had a fever .
10 Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him .
11 Teotihuacan was some twenty kilometres north-east of the centre of Mexico City and I thought I had probably glimpsed those pyramids through the dust haze as we flew in .
12 I never meant it to happen , and I never meant to hurt you , Helen , honestly I did n't but it just kind of happened to me , and I thought I had to tell you , because I did n't want to … to cheat you and so on and I 'm really very fond of you , and I 'm sorry .
13 But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ .
14 In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ?
15 And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing .
16 I had n't seen her since you went to America , and then about six months ago I was staying the week-end with the Coleworthys and I thought I had better drop in to see the old girl in case she heard I was in the neighbourhood and took offence "
17 I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days .
18 I was apprenticed at Swindon in the steam age and I thought it had passed .
19 Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me .
20 I mean I did n't realise cos she had these lumps coming out of her chest and I thought she had cancer .
21 Richard and I thought you had settled so nicely ’ — as if I was some sort of jelly — and then , ‘ Well , if you really want to , I suppose it would be nice for you to earn a little pin money . ’
22 PC Kelly went on : ‘ I did not hear anything but I saw two flashes from the barrel of the gun and I presumed he had shot Goodman twice . ’
23 As we rounded Hyde Park Corner , I looked in the rear-view mirror , then the wing mirror and I estimated I had them outnumbered about five to one .
24 Everyone said what they thought and I said I had always believed in God and Jesus Christ due to my upbringing , personal feelings and experiences but I found commitment difficult .
25 I got the rest of it out of Vanessa , and I said I had to tell them now .
26 She said : ‘ He asked about the bureau and I said I had nowhere to put the things from it so he went into the wardrobe and cleared a shelf and said put it in there .
27 I remember talking to you and I said I had erm friends from , that 's in Tipperary is n't it ?
28 place , er whe when Margaret and I went we had
29 I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast , but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end .
30 Most of us went to church on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day , and I felt I had so much for which to be profoundly thankful .
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