Example sentences of "and i [vb past] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Well he said yesterday had we , we 'd got enough and I thought we had . |
| 6 | And , and I thought we had this conversation two weeks ago |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | It grew cold , and I thought I had a fever . |
| 9 | Lord Hulton was waiting at the entrance and I thought I had better warn him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I was apprenticed at Swindon in the steam age and I thought it had passed . |
| 18 | Then the woman took a paper bag out and I thought she had some sweets and might give one to me . |
| 19 | I mean I did n't realise cos she had these lumps coming out of her chest and I thought she had cancer . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I got the rest of it out of Vanessa , and I said I had to tell them now . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I remember talking to you and I said I had erm friends from , that 's in Tipperary is n't it ? |
| 27 | place , er whe when Margaret and I went we had |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But the bills were dropping on to the doormat and I felt I had no choice . |