Example sentences of "and [pers pn] had come " in BNC.

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1 And I had to come out a minute early to pay it back .
2 I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo .
3 I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys
4 I almost caused an accident coming back from Bedford yesterday , there 's somebody in an X R three i right up my arse so I just coming onto the motorway , the M four to Bracknell and erm comes right up my arse and I had to come out cos there was this car coming on you know , from further up the the lane and it was coming on and I was already on , so I overtook it let it did to let it come out you know ?
5 I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else .
6 I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in .
7 In my job , I had expected the sick and the dying to trust God , and I had come to the Sahara hoping to discover whether I myself would keep the faith in adverse circumstances .
8 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 .
9 Hilda and he were in London on a spree , Viola and I had come out of the theatre for the interval — Noel Coward , Rattigan .
10 Hugo kept telling me my body was glorious and I had come to believe him .
11 We were n't doing the hours that I 'd agreed to do , and Silvia and I had come to a sort of arrangement … ’
12 And I had come round !
13 And she had to come in the car while I
14 There seemed hardly time for anyone to wander off , but wander she had , and she had come to swinging happily on a swing in the park playground .
15 So far she had got no information and she had come dangerously near to paying the price .
16 It was a summer afternoon — she could barely have been more than eight years old — and she had come to the Lodge with her brother and their cousin , Laetitia , who was visiting the Hall with her parents .
17 At the end of a few minutes , he had agreed to get Landau , and she had come up with the names of banks and accounts for both Foster and Landau , and the place where he could lay hands on Pete Foster .
18 Do n't forget last Christmas when you forgot your mother 's and we had to come dashing back for it , and it snowing like blazes .
19 And we had to come back together because a guest had twisted her ankle and it needed bandaging . ’
20 We spent Chairman , two and a half hours discussing this matter at that point and we had come full circle back to point 1 .
21 The old man had been a seaman , and they had come from Chatham seeking a relative who had once lived next door , but who they found had moved .
22 Ever since Mum had married Ken Lomax and they had come up here , he had felt useless .
23 When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning .
24 And they had come to feel that pulse .
25 They were not very loud , like the crack of a fairground rifle , and they had come from behind him , from the playground .
26 And they had come to the conclusion that it was not American slate cos there were no quarries in that time .
27 The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure .
28 Her father died and they had to come back from their , this particular and come back .
29 Like tying a bottle on the door and sticking it on the window and knock the door and they had to come , crash the bottle would go .
30 They belonged and they had to come back to .
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