Example sentences of "and i had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 2 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 3 | And I had been dumb so long ! |
| 4 | We found ourselves lost , just as Masha and I had been when a sudden mist had descended on the lower slopes of the Wetterhorn . |
| 5 | My mother-in-law helped to run one of the early family planning clinics , and I had been despatched to an appointment with the other doctor ! ) |
| 6 | Up till then , there had been no official suggestion of the plane 's being recalled , and I had been inclined to believe that Leslie had landed in France , and had subsequently disappeared . |
| 7 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 8 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 9 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 10 | My turn to die had come and I had been inexplicably reprieved . |
| 11 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 12 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 13 | Boot and I had been allocated the less spectacular task of making and using miniature Barkausen-Kurz tubes as possible receivers . |
| 14 | Both Frank and I had been telephoned , informed of remarks supposedly made by the other , and asked for our comments . |
| 15 | I remembered George Crowninshield very well , for he and his wife had been my very first clients on board Wavebreaker and I had been nervous , not just at the prospect of a new job , but because of the client 's eminence . |
| 16 | Nigel and I had been together , as the saying goes , for ten or more years , and as he was approaching sixty — at which age he proposed to retire , we had , for more than a year , spent many weekends searching the British Isles for a dwelling with water-power which , with Nigel 's expertise , would supply all our heating and lighting needs and , in Nigel 's words , ‘ free us from the vagaries of Scargill and the Oil Sheiks ’ . |
| 17 | And I had been lonely . |
| 18 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 19 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 20 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 21 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 22 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 23 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 24 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 25 | Indeed , the paralysis he had suffered as a result of her suicide had given way to an energetic creative vitality since he and I had been together . |
| 26 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 27 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 28 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 29 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 30 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |